Fillable Forms Limitations

I read on the adobe website that when you enable reader rights that you are limited to 500 responses when you post a form online.  Is this accurate?  Is there some way in which at 501 the form will no longer save with data in the form?  Also I was told on the phone by adobe support that this functionality was a feature of only the the Professional versions not the Standard versions but I read somewhere else that you can do it with a Standard Version 9 or X.  I have 9 Standard but do not see it as an option.  Thanks for the advice.

It's true. If you distribute an extended document to more than 500 recipients, as you do when you post it to a publicly available web site, you can use data from no more than 500 forms that have been returned to you, including hardcopies. There is no way to automatically disable and forms once this limit is reached. You just have to not use data from any more returned forms.
Acrobat 9 Standard should be able to Reader-enable documents.

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