Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
Morning all, This is an interesting one. I have a estate agent client who runs a monthly competition on their site - simple question with three possible answers. Anyway, they are getting 1,000's of entries a day to the competition, because the url for it has been posted on various competition

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Roberts
17, 2008 4:33 AM /*To: CF-Talk /*Subject: Interesting issue with competition /* /*Morning all, /* /*This is an interesting one. I have a estate agent client who runs a /*monthly /*competition on their site - simple question with three possible answers. /* /*Anyway, they are getting 1,000's

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
That's an interesting idea Eric, and considerably simpler to set up. Thanks for the feedback. Will -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2008 13:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Interesting issue with competition How about doing the link as a form

Re: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Ian Skinner
You could also inspect the referer on the action page and only accept responses that came from the prevoius page. Again not foolproof, but 99% of average Joes are not going to bother spoofing the referer. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion®

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2008 14:25 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Interesting issue with competition You could also inspect the referer on the action page and only accept responses that came from the prevoius page. Again not foolproof, but 99% of average Joes are not going to bother spoofing

Re: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Yuliang Ruan
So what's the purpose of restricting the time? Is it because the competition is only valid at that time? Would a valid customer not do the competition outside of that timeframe? I would say you should give each sent out email a encoded serial number in the URL and record when that user's

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2008 14:41 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Interesting issue with competition So what's the purpose of restricting the time? Is it because the competition is only valid at that time? Would a valid customer not do the competition outside of that timeframe? I would say you should

Re: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Yuliang Ruan
well...yeabut that wouldn't be maintainable unless you want to keep adding on url's to your blacklist. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got to be the easiest way. And checking their logfiles, most of the traffic is coming from two domains. -Original Message- From: Yuliang Ruan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2008 15:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Interesting issue

Re: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Ian Skinner
Will Swain wrote: Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got to be the easiest way. And checking their logfiles, most of the traffic is coming from two domains. But why try and keep an ever increasing list of domains that it can not come from rather then just confirm that it comes from

RE: Interesting issue with competition

2008-07-17 Thread Will Swain
Got ya. That may fit with their scenario. Thanks guys. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2008 16:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Interesting issue with competition Will Swain wrote: Indeed. As a quick and dirty fix though it's got