Access Code for form submission

[Mark Flynn]

I have a form that has the visitor fill in his name and contact info along
with a text box for his comments. The form results are sent to me as an
emal. Unfortunately I'm receiving spam via this form.
Question: Is there a way to require the submitter to physically preform a
task, like entering an Access Code, before he can submit the form?
The form is here:
http://www.markflynn.biz/Documents/contact-form.htm
I'm using MS FP 2003 and GoDaddy is my hosting service.
Thanks, Mark Flynn

 

[Ronx]

You are using the FrontPage extensions to process your form, and
displaying your email address (in code view). Spambots will pick up the
email address from the page code view, so it may not be the form itself
being used to generate the spam.

The best solution is to move to custom written server side scripts to
process the form data. With this method the email address can be hard
coded in the script, and never displayed on the page (in code, source or
any other view), and a Human Interface Proof (HIP) device (CAPTCHA,
ASIRRA, etc) used to defeat the spambots.

Some Examples of HIPS can be seen at
http://www.rxs-enterprises.co.uk/tests/anti-spam/
but none of these will be effective when using FrontPage extensions to
process the form - FP extensions can only use JavaScript to validate
form fields, and Spambots usually have JavaScript disabled.

Since you are getting spam on your existing email address, you will need
to change it.

 

[Mark Flynn]

Hi Ron:
Thank you very much. I greatly appreciate the time, effort and expertise
that you and the other MS MVP's share with FP users.
Best regards, Mark Flynn