In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi Pete, > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Pete" >> It might also be a good idea to block search engines with robots.txt - > >I had it in my robots.txt. Maybe they read these in their search?
Possibly, but they are more likely to just use Google. The pages in the new site, which appear in robots.txt, don't have names that would identify them as contact forms. >I would have thought a CAPTCHA would have done the job, except those with >Optical Character Recognition, which I wouldn't think too many have? OCR doesn't work if the characters are squiggly enough. The alternative is a series of "silly questions" - what is 1+3? Which of the following is not a colour - red, yellow, dog, green. >I've just put one on, but mainly just to learn how to do it. >Hope you find a solution. On my sites, I usually put a contact-us, and a thank-you page, as two separate pages. I notice from my logs that many of the spammers jump straight to thank-you, increasing my belief that they are POSTing the variables in directly. Others jump straight the to contact-us page, and there is no record of where they came from, which would imply that they are coming direct from a list on their computer, either manually, or using software. I do know that 95% of spammers are non-technical idiots (from the silly mistakes that they make), and are just using some software that they have bought, and not always correctly. If I can cut 95% of my spam out, that will suit me. -- Pete Clark Sunny Andalucia http://www.hotcosta.com/comm_1.htm
