Spam Blocking: Captcha

Telling humans and computers apart was hard enough in Blade Runner, to make it easier just add a Captcha to your form.

Spam is a part of the internet, you can't escape it altogether, but you can cut it down. If you have a form on your site that emails you, you can cut down on junk messages by adding a question to your form that only a human can answer.

Whether collecting or signing up for email addresses, violating privacy, trying to crack passwords, or sending out spam to unsuspecting email recipients, spam bots are annoying us, one email at a time. The problem is that machines don't sleep, never get tired and and can work for months without a break. They will tirelessly bombard your form with links to questionable websites and names like "sdfledsdf".

If you add an image of a word, the bot can't read it, but a human can. Try it out for yourself:

Write the following word:

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Did you know?
The term "CAPTCHA" was coined in 2000. It's an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."