Right. My point wasn't "put a web form there, and you're fine". It was "put a web form there, but you still need to put in some anti-bot technology. Your suggestion of a form field may be easily effective as well, although I've seen some spammers get around simple ones of these as well.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tom Piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > >Since the town may also have a website, it sounds like its not > >unreasonable to have a web form on the site instead of any other email way > >to get a hold of the government. You can put a CAPATCHA or other > >bot-obstacles in front of the form. > > Spammers attack web forms too. They have bots that fill in forms with > their messages and submit the forms. > > You may not need something a complicated/annoying as a CAPATCHA. Just > have one form field that asks something that a spammer would not know. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
