Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-12 Thread Gerry D
My implementation of captcha eliminated chinese spam. See http://www.lilyregister.com/page/?p=contact Gerry On 8/9/06, Micky Hulse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Recently, a client of mine was getting a ton of spam email from a site called hotbox.com. I updated her form to one with more spam

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, August 9, 2006 11:33 pm, Micky Hulse wrote: Yeah, I would prefer to not setup a CAPTCHA too (although, I would like to learn how to script one)... hopefully implementing your (and everyone else's) great suggestions will really make my script hard to spam. I rolled my own, because I

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, August 9, 2006 11:42 pm, Micky Hulse wrote: Micky Hulse wrote: I just commented-out all of the PHP in the old script and added one line: die(#%$#@ off!); Actually... is there anything more I can do at this point to fight back? Can I use something better than die()? Or, is it best

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-10 Thread Micky Hulse
Richard Lynch wrote: You can tie up their connection, wasting your connection... If it were my own site, I might think about doing something like wasting my connection... I suppose you could do: header(Location: 127.0.0.1); and then they'd be trying to surf to their own computer, if they

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-10 Thread Micky Hulse
Richard Lynch wrote: I rolled my own, because I thought it would be a useful learning experience. Sounds like what I am thinking. :) And, I kinda sorta documented it. Well, I put the source up on-line anyway. :-) So here's one crude hack way to do it, if you just want the basics of how it's

[PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-09 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi, Recently, a client of mine was getting a ton of spam email from a site called hotbox.com. I updated her form to one with more spam security, but she is still receiving junk email. Anyone feel like sharing code snippets that will help beef-up spam protection for a contact script? Do

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, August 9, 2006 3:17 pm, Micky Hulse wrote: Recently, a client of mine was getting a ton of spam email from a site called hotbox.com. I updated her form to one with more spam security, but she is still receiving junk email. If you are not already, PLEASE make sure that any headers you

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-09 Thread Micky Hulse
Quick note to Kevin Waterson: Hehe, I think all this talk about spam sent my response to your reply into your spam filter... I got a bounce back. Thanks for help though... let me know if there is any way I can re-send the email without a bounce-back. Richard Lynch wrote: If you are not

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-09 Thread Micky Hulse
Micky Hulse wrote: Recently, a client of mine was getting a ton of spam email from a site called hotbox.com. I updated her form to one with more spam security, but she is still receiving junk email. Hi all, thanks for the great responses (on/off list). I just realized that the spammer is not

Re: [PHP] Comment form spammer

2006-08-09 Thread Micky Hulse
Micky Hulse wrote: I just commented-out all of the PHP in the old script and added one line: die(#%$#@ off!); Actually... is there anything more I can do at this point to fight back? Can I use something better than die()? Or, is it best just to let them figure it out and go away? -- PHP