On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: > When I have had forms on my web pages, I was shocked by just how > many of > the submissions were spam. I could never figure out if a human took > the > time to fill out all those little text boxes or if there was a > generator > somewhere. Sometimes the boxes were filled randomly and sometimes > they > were done coherently. More than half the submissions were total spam. > > I strongly recommend that you do not set things up to post from a > website > automatically. I see that you are talking about forms distributed in > email, but the chances for spam are still there. > > It takes some time to screen them all but it is worth it IMHO > because even > one spam really pisses people off and makes a huge mess. > > Cyndi
Hi Cyndi, Yes spam is a big issue, and to an extent, you will never get rid of spam... I say this as someone who runs a company email server and is in charge of keeping the spam down :) There are ways though to make sure that no bots can submit to your forms... And the way I setup my mailman lists, is that no one but authorized people can post to the list, which does block e-mail harvesting techniques. There are also CAPTCHA's that you can put on your web form's to avoid spam, but that has it's own set of drawbacks... Plenty of info on the web about it. If you have someone paying people to submit forms on websites, there is no way to avoid that... Other then not having a form at all. And there are people who do that... I have seen lots of adds requesting people to do just that... So basically I agree with you, with a few stipulations. :) -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
