Randy, I had thought about that, but my form is very compact because of layout constraints (http://whitehrosemedia.com) and I don't think the fact that we are not accepting spam will motivate people to go through the extra steps to receive our newsletter. I am partially working off of Steve Krug's philosophy of not making the visitor think (doing math or decrypting Capthca) in order to subscribe.
For other forms, Captcha or Math will be fine. For the newsletter however, I will have to find another method. -Aaron On 11/8/06, Adkins, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not think it comes down to making them beg, it shows them you > Are concerned about SPAM and since they are subscribing to a service > You are providing, they will not have to worry about receiving spam > notices from that Newsletter List. > > Captcha is a great concept and is in use in many high profiled sites. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:34 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam > > I know that nobody wants to put their site visitors through the trouble > of entering some anti-spam verification code into the form but in this > case I really don't think that Capthca or Math is the right solution. > > I would rather just use a regular expression. The reason is that email > newsletter subscriptions are delicate. People are already hesitant about > subscribing and I don't want to make them beg for it. > > I didn't think about checking if the first name and last name are the > same, I may try that (and count my losses when/if anybody with the same > first and last name tries to enroll). > > I may use Math or Lyla Captcha on other forms on my site though, so > thank you for the links. > > -Aaron > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259694 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
