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I'm not a fan of captchas.  Generally inacessible, unless you also make an 
audio version available, and even then not the nicest hoop to make users jump 
through.

One method I've seen elsewhere, but haven't used myself, is an additional input 
box:
The magic word is blah.  Please enter the magic word.

The only place I've seen this method is the mysociety sites, e.g:
http://www.mysociety.org/?p=103

The only difficulty would this is get-aroundable by bots, assuming any bot 
writer cares enough about your site to spend the time rewriting their bot to 
regex your form field to get the magic word.  


Duncan Cumming
New Media Developer
Customer Relations Management / Education
Fife Council
700 4105 / 01592 414105

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Hi all.

I have a contact form which submits an email (cfmail)
The form is being hit by a web bot and sent hundreds of times

Is there any way I can stop this?

regards - paul


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