Anyone have any luck with this?
My first internet venture was a gaming forum a few years ago. Wasn't really that much of a success, since I didn't have much of a plan from the start and had no idea how to monetize or advertise such a thing, but I managed to draw in close to 1K members.
One thing I'm wondering is how this works with spam bots. I got TONS of spam bots signing up for my forum, and I'm wondering if the e-mail addresses they use in these CPA e-mail submits would get you in trouble. Although, since you're creating your own custom register page, I'm thinking the bots may not work.
One final question. It sounds like this method doesn't actually generate new users for you, since, once they fill out the form, they would be taken to a page outside your forum. Is there any way to get a 2 for 1 and get the e-mail submit and the user as a member? While the e-mail submit is nice, I wanted to build a forum that grows over time (with actual real human beings), and, hopefully, will eventually be big enough to where people will be coming from all over to sign up and post in the forums.