I've been combatting the same issue for some time now, I like to have a form on my site for people to contact me with specific input, but the spamming has gotten SO out of hand, I'm tempted to do away with them entirely... a terrible time waster, checking each submission to see if it's legitimate or not...

It seems so stupid to me, to even bother with these forms, since submissions usually only go to a single email address.

I am wondering if there might be some way to bend .htaccess to our use in blocking the spambots from filling in and submitting the forms?

perhaps, requiring the presence of a unique ip address? Just a thought. I know that htaccess can block spiders from specific areas of a website, while allowing browser views of that content...

Is this at all a possibility?

Mahalos,
Puamana