Email forms for collecting data

[Paras Shah]

Not sure if this is the correct group for this posting but here goes:

I am trying to build a database of specific survey data (names, addresses,
income, etc.) The way I want to collect the info is via email. I would
like to send out forms in an email have respondents fill in the forms and
send the email back. Then somehow smoothly import this data directly into
an access database.

is there an efficient elegant way of doing this? i am an intermediate level
user of access (been using it since version 1.0) so dont fear using
technical terms.

i know how to create forms, but not sure how the process of sending the form
and then allowing the respondent to actually store data in the form and send
it back works. would i be saving a bunch of attachments and then importing
thousands of these small files into my database?

any advice is greatly appreciated. thanx.

-Paras