Fillable forms limited to 500?

I would like to use Acrobat to create form fillable applications (permits) for our website, w/ a submit button to email the form.  I saw '* Form distribution and data collection with Acrobat and Form Tracker may not exceed 500 people per form'. Does this mean I would have to take the form down from the web once I receive 500 applications?

That notice is a bit inaccurate, but in your case it does effectively mean that.
There are better options though, considering that email is not all that reliable and is generally not secure. If you want to use a PDF form, Adobe's FormsCentral service allows you easily set it up to submit securely and without any limits on the number of submissions that you can receive. Submitting to a web server is far more reliable. You are able to download any response as a filled-in PDF form and the responses can be accessible to team members that you assign, not just one user on one machine as with Tracker. And it's reasonably priced.
To create a PDF form that's enabled to be saved with any version of Reader and submitted by email any number of times, you'd have to license Adobe's LiveCycle Reader Extensions, which is rather expensive, and submitting would still be unreliable and not secure.

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