Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread James Crooke
I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming and NOT use CAPTCHA. Again, it comes down to the

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/07, James Crooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-14 Thread James Crooke
I disagree, Captchas are accessible - providing you supply an audio alternative of course. On 2/15/07, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be going through a spate of getting spam in a form on one of my sites (the one in the link, below, actually.) So I tried using PHP to randomly

RE: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-14 Thread Moira Clunie
-Original Message- From: David Dorward Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 8:21 a.m. On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:54:35PM +, James Crooke wrote: I disagree, Captchas are accessible - providing you supply an audio alternative of course. Try that on a device which only has

[WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread Designer
I seem to be going through a spate of getting spam in a form on one of my sites (the one in the link, below, actually.) So I tried using PHP to randomly display an image and getting the form user to input what it says. I still get spam! I'm presuming that this is because the spammer will

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread James Crooke
Bob, I'm not sure how hard your Captcha code is to programatically recognise, but make sure that your not relying on sessions like this: if($_SESSION['captcha_code'] == $_POST['user_code']) because a robot spammer won't create a session, so its like comparing to if they enter nothing in the

RE: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Williams
to the akismet engine, if it comes back as spam, simply reject it... -Original Message- From: Designer Subject: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms Sorry if this is OT - can anyone point me to a solution? *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Ingram
, 2007 1:06 PM Subject: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms I seem to be going through a spate of getting spam in a form on one of my sites (the one in the link, below, actually.) So I tried using PHP to randomly display an image and getting the form user to input what it says. I still get spam! I'm