Yeah, there has apparently been a rise in spammers paying the poor to submit forms for them. It was actually on Slashdot a couple days ago I think.
If that becomes an increasing problem, we'll all be moving to Sandra's white/black lists method and working twice as hard to keep crap out of our databases. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hiding email addresses Well, Here's the thing. For some reason, I only seem to get spam submissions on the weekend. Normally, I would not have made anything of this, but someone recently pointed out that sometimes spam form submissions are made BY people (not bots). I don't know what kind of person does this, but this would fit into the weekend-only model. Also, there is nothing about my form that is time-dependent. What I like about Dinowitz's solution is that a cached form structure will not work for re-submission after a certain amount of time. I think a combination of the two should be good. We shall see. However, just to reiterate, my spam submissions are minimal! Only like a 6 or so over the past two weeks. ....................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hiding email addresses Well crap... so the hidden field method is letting spam through now? ....:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hiding email addresses Jacob, Also, I have gotten several spam form submissions since my new implementation :( I am going to try and upgrade it to incorporate an idea similar to Michael Dinowitz's... But not quite as complicated as his (IMO). http://www.blogoffusion.com/index.cfm/2006/11/21/AntiForm-Spam-code-test We shall see. From Michael's blog, it looks like he has had good success with it. ......................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -----Original Message----- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hiding email addresses Not enough info. Do you really have the email address exposed in the form somewhere? If not, maybe they're getting spam from the form (spam bots)? If it's the latter, you should do something to protect the form. I used to suggest CAPTCHA, but now there are more accessible methods. Ben Nadel has a method he blogged about, and I'm working on an upgraded version of CFFormProtect that will be fully accessible. Unfortunately it's not ready yet. :( > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Rogoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 8:54 AM > > I have a client where I setup a contact form that emails them the > results of a form submission. They are claiming they are receiving > more spam now since bots are reading the email address in the page. > They have asked me if there is a way to hide the email address > better...does anyone have any ideas? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:261739 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
