[Web4lib] web forms

[Paul R. Pival]

reCAPTCHA has worked very well for us since we implemented earlier this 
year: http://recaptcha.net/

Plus your users will help with OCR projects while helping to fight the 
spam :-)

Paul R. Pival
Public Services Systems Librarian
401D MLT
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Phone: (403) 220-5650
Fax: (403) 282-1218



Kerry Sullivan wrote:
> I have little to no control over our web presence anymore, but we recently
> experienced a massive spamming of all of our online forms for the entire
> organization.  We received thousands of emails overnight from multiple
> forms.  We have since disabled our forms and our web programmer is working
> on creating the forms in Flash.  He is extremely backed up and has not made
> much progress and in the meantime our users do without.
>
> I have noticed that there are a number of libraries' websites that have
> these forms.  How do they have them hanging out there and not get spammed
> like we did?  What are we doing wrong?  I welcome any suggestions or shared
> frustration from a similar experience.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kerry
>
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