Thanks to those who have SO quickly replied! :)

Due to old age and vision of my users, the captcha method is pretty much out...and restricted posting is also undesired, so I'm kinda limited to something behind the scenes...

Assuming the spam is via a bot, how exactly does it find my form on site? And the data I'm getting is much longer than the field size limits on web page, so they either are using their own variant of my page (which I'd need to try and block) or what? If they are humans typing in spam on my site, then it couldn't be as lengthy as I'm seeing..Or?

In reply to Re^3: newb: Best way to protect CGI from non-form invocation? by JCHallgren
in thread newb: Best way to protect CGI from non-form invocation? by JCHallgren

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