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by ChrisMarshallNY 1004 days ago
It would store the defaults, I suppose.

I got the idea from a book. Can't remember which, but it may have been in the early oughties, or even last century (and the book called it "Honeypot Fields").

The nice thing was, the user didn't have any friction at all. They had a subject and message. No CAPTCHAS, no math problems. Nothing.

The form was on a site with a fair bit of exposure and traffic. Another similar site used Contact Form 7 (or whatever the predecessor to it was), and we would get fairly regular spams. This was a plugin that I hand-crafted.