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Hi Larry, Regarding your spam blocker, of course, I have been using it. However, I was still getting emails from automated spam producers, bots or whatever, so I thought I would share this little routine with you. It simply checks to see if there is a human at the other end (who can add!!) and I now receive NO spam at all. All I do is ask the customer to add two numbers. I put these as numerics, but one could create an array with 1 = One, 2 = two etc etc. I'll leave out all of the extraneous code. Header etc etc <?php $check = $_POST['check']; //Getting answer from customer of the addition. $result2 = $_POST['checking']; //Getting answer from the addition by the server. //if then loops etc, with all of the questions etc.... //...after spam scrubber: if($check == $result2) { //Send the email to me and thank customer } else { echo '<h2 style = "font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffff99;">It seems that your arithmetic is erroneous. Please try again.'; //Make the customer do the sum again. } ?> //Start form action..... Check:<br /> //Or you could write more informative text for the customer. <?php $random1 = RAND(1, 9); //Invent an integer between 1 and 9. $random2 = RAND(1, 9); //Ditto. $result1 = $random1 + $random2; //Do the math!! echo 'What is ' . $random1 . ' plus ' . $random2 . '? <input type="text" name="check" size="3"/><input type = "hidden" name = "checking" value = "' . $result1 . '" /><br /><br />' ; //Ask the customer the question - the answer to the addition. Also send the server's answer ($result1). ?> <input type="submit" value="Send" ><input type="hidden" name ="Secure" value = "ejeewq8"> <input type="reset" value="Clear"> <input type = "hidden" name = "submitted" value = "submitted"> //Send it. <br /><br /> I hope that you find it interesting. Regards Max