Best Way to Do a Form Mail

to eliminate spam

[renvac]

Hi All -
Anyone know the best way to put a form mail onto your web site to minimize spam? So those little robots have a hard time harvesting from it? I don't know javascript - so forget that - Im still learning CSS. So one thing at a time.
Also, Can I set up a form mail in CSS? If yes, would that help minimize spam? I have looked around and seem to just get more confused!
I removed my old mail form from my site because I was getting about 100 email of spam a day if not more! And also started using Hiveware Enkoder - for my email and my spam is hardly any.
Thanks for any help
RenVac

[moltar]

Form mail has nothing to do with CSS. The only relation I see is styling the form elements, but it will not help you hide from bots.

As I understand you refering to one of those scripts where you need to put your email into a "hidden" element of the form. Yes, bots can easily extract that.

If you have minimal knowledge of the programming language that your form mail script is written in, you could hard code the email value into the script. That way bots will not be able to see it.

[gulliver]

I use a form script which doesn't present the email address on page... and instead carries it solely in the cgi - so it can't be harvested.

I can't post an url here so if you contact me dorectly I'll happily pass on details

[Khemikal]

Hi Ren,

The best option I've seen for keeping span at bay or to keep it from harvesting your formmail at all is by using a php based formmail. I would heartily suggest aformail. Up until a year ago I used a typical sendmail/formmail/cgi solution and the spam sucked. Since switching to a php based form the spam bots are practically non-existent.

Khem

[renvac]

Hi Khem,
Dont know much about php - actually dont know anything about php?
Thanks to all that responded!
RenVac

[Khemikal]

Ren,

You really don't need to know much...it is a script! :) Seriously, if you can build a website, you just have to change maybe a half-dozen parameters (like server name, email being sent to, etc, etc) and then upload it to your server.

It *may* take you 15 minutes to figure out tops.

Khem