Tom Piwowar
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
What other types of questions?
Just check street name against the list of streets in the community.
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I am doing some research for a mayor and council of a small town as a
favor. I am researching on line but think you all may have some hidden
gems that might not readily show up in a search.
#1 Don't put the question in the subject line because many email clients
will truncate it.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I am doing some research for a mayor and council of a small town as a
favor. I am researching on line but think you all may have some hidden
gems that might not readily show up in a search.
#1 Don't put the question in the
- Route email through something like gmail, which keep up-to-date on the
current spam methods and do a pretty good job at making sure that they
filter out the junk.
I do this. Works great.
Note that Google bought Postini so you could purchase their filtering
services that way too.
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
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,
