Form Properties

[Guest]

We have a site survey on our website. We are having problems with spammers.
Need to know how to limit the number of characters allowed in a comment box.
Can anyone help. I have Vista and FP 2002.
Thanks

 

[.._..]

We have a site survey on our website. We are having problems with
spammers.
Need to know how to limit the number of characters allowed in a comment
box.
Can anyone help. I have Vista and FP 2002.
Thanks

You can do that with JavaScript or form field properties. However, those
spammers are not using a browser but a specialized program.

You will have MUCH better luck just renaming the file and updating links.
That will shake them off for a while.

(They work by getting some loser to go find these on the web, who creates a
configration file, which is then sent out to the "zombie farm" of hacked
computers all over the world. Because of this process, you can reaname the
file and keep them out for a bit.)

 

[Guest]

Thank You. Will try, or maybe just take the site survey off the site for a
while.

 

[Mike Mueller]

This may keep them out for awhile, but they will be back. As stated
previously, javascript'ing the process is futile. Best thing to do would be
to redevelope the page to be a server side script, and use a form of CAPTCHA
technology to prevent illicit usage.