In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi Pete, >I've had an automated system lock on to my "Contact Me" form sending lists of >porn links every 30 mins. I altered the name, but they just followed it. To >anyone else thinking of putting a Contact me link on, don't use that name, >they >just google for it.
It might also be a good idea to block search engines with robots.txt - robots.txt won't stop the spammers, but it will stop them from be able to find your contact form in Google. > >I have a common routine that check all inputs (for the things mentioned >previously), but just use this for the message text. >$raw is the incoming message text. I would never finish the list of banned words! I get tens of thousands of spam emails per month across my systems. >The rejected message they get is lightweight to keep bandwidth usage low. I >deliberately didn't give a link to return. My ISP went mental when I did this, as there was so much outgoing mail, most of it to non-existent addresses. >As someone said earlier, you wouldn't think it was worth their while targeting >one person, but they do seem to. I disagree that they target one person. I would think that they have software automatically finding these forms, and automatically filling them. I just would like to know how, so that I can securely stop them. I haven't had time to search for systems to use for spam yet, but I would guess that is the way - figure out how they get in, then stop them. -- Pete Clark Sunny Andalucia http://www.hotcosta.com/comm_1.htm
