Author: Andrew Hart
No one likes spam in their inbox and there are many weapons to combat spammers from abusing the forms (such as a feedback form) that you have on your website.
The most critical aspect that is often overlooked is preventing spam whilst not losing genuine communication from your users.
Spam is a problem and it does need to be tackled, but forcing your visitors to jump through hoops is not the right way to tackle it.
Read more at
http://www.simiusweb.com/news/2009_07_07_form_spam_prevention.htm