FP2002 Forms remote name

[Pearl]

Hello,

I created a webpage with forms. The forms are a sales tool. Someone is
sending gibberish over on the forms. The form and server identifies the
Remote Name. Is there any was to prevent the email spam from an individual
or use the Remote Name to contact the individual? Or any way to prevent the
unwanted form submission?
Thanks

 

[Ronx]

If the form uses FrontPage extensions for processing there is practically
nothing you can do.
If the form uses any other method (PHP, asp, asp.NET etc) then you can use
captcha, recaptcha or other methods to discriminate between human input and
machine input (spambot). Some examples of these are at
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/anti-spam/

If the gibberish is from a person, then you can set up a filter in the
processing script to eliminate any recognisable gibberish.
The remote user name is usually the IP address the user was using when they
filled in the form. Unless that user has a fixed or sticky IP, this often
changes from day to day, even hour to hour in some cases, and the IP address
is reused by other (legitimate) users.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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