[Web4lib] Stopping form mail spam

[Andrew Mutch]

Anyone have suggestions for a good form mail script or alternative that I
can use for web-based form submissions that is fairly spam resistant? I'm
using the most recent (not very) version of NMS form mail but the spammers
appear to have that pretty well busted. I've done a few tricks that has
slowed down some of the more basic spam attempts but the more
sophisticated operations are bypassing the online form completely. I don't
want to put in place anything that's going to hinder accessability and I'm
willing to put up with some spam if I have to have a trade-off but the
volume of it is getting pretty ridiculous.

Thanks,

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI



> "Hear hear!" to everything Bill Denton said, plus which:
>
> On 9/14/2006 12:52 PM, William Denton wrote:
>>
>> Online contact forms are one way to hide from spammers...
>
> ...until you start getting form submission spam.  Our contact form
> routinely gets things like "Question or comment: CLICK HERE TO WIN
> HERBAL V1AGRA AT OUR ONLINE CASINO!!!!!"
>
>
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