Hi,

> - Firstly, such a script has to be custom made for my site, I mean, the
> spammer has to realize that there is a non-spam protection in  the
> site, manually follow the poster's link, annotate the names of the
> form's fields and make the script. And this work for every site... The
> effort is much bigger than just having a robot collecting mailto
> references, don't you think?
sure! But if these aren't fetchable that easy anymore,
they (the spammers) will look for other ways.
A skript like this is easy, look at the things that are
used for comment or trackback spamming.
I think worldpress or movabletype blogs have been attacked
like this and changed form and field names. But this is only
another logic step and no real obstacle.
If you are the only one using this with COREBlog, then,
depending on your blog-reach, perhaps nobody every
takes the trouble to write such a skript, but if it
is implemented in every COREBlog site and COREBlog
suddenly is the blog of choice ;-),...

And have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

> - Secondly, the comment poster might be receiving some spam through our
> site, but at least his address is never compromised and put in the
> hands of spammers.
I don't think that's a big difference for a spammer,
he wants to spread his message. Again, look at
comment or trackback spamming.

> - Thirdly, as all the traffic goes through our server, if we see spam
> sent through it, we can implement filters that would block spam.
this is a broad field for legal discussions.
I wouldn't saddle myself with this.

Ciao,
dev

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