In your case, if that's all you're seeing... I'd just compare the 2 fields and make sure they arent the same since there are plenty of first and/or last names that have spaces in them but the MAJORITY of people dont have the same first and last name :-)
Here is a cf based captcha (no 3rd party image manipulation). It's pretty easy to use. http://acoderslife.com/downloads/bhcaptcha/ You could also try this... create a normal form field, leave it empty and hide it with css '...display:none;' then on the processing page, just make sure the field is still empty. Many bots will fill out all fields they find. It won't stop them all but it stops some. Also, make sure fields like first name and last name, city, state, etc... don't validate as email addresses. Many bots will do this as well If I think of anything else, I'll let you know -----Original Message----- From: Adkins, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Help with Form Validation Against Spam Another suggestion in addition to validating the name fields is to use Captcha To help stop the spamming of the bots. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam >I have a newsletter form on my website that accepts frist name, last >name and email. The sorry spam crawlers are submitting bogus >information into the form. Most of the time, they are sending the first >name and last name in both name fields so that I recieve something like >this: > >You have a new subscriber to your e-newsletter: > >First Name: David Boswell >Last Name: David Boswell >Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >How can I make it so that each name field only accepts one word with no spaces? > >I made several attempts at this using cfform and regular expressions >but I'm not very good with regular expressions so I couldn't figure it >out. > >Thanks for the help, >Aaron Hi Aaron, Not sure whether you've solved this but here's another idea.. Invoke a web service and pass it your #form.email# value. Then check the response back as to whether the email is valid or not. <Cfoutput> <cftry> <cfinvoke webservice="http://www.webservicex.com/ValidateEmail.asmx?WSDL"; method="IsValidEmail" returnvariable="emailResponse"> <cfinvokeargument name="email" value="#form.email#" /> </cfinvoke> <cfcatch type="any"> </cfcatch> </cftry> <!--- #emailResponse# returns either "YES" or "NO"---> </Cfoutput> <cfif #email EQ "YES"> then proceed <cfelse> don't proceed </cfif> Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265533 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
