Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-06 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Apr 4, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: or you can't see at all) then you have to fall back to the audio replacement offered by the captcha. I've tried listening to some, and they are awful. Thanks, Ash Ash: How about the second one down? Can you

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 20:32 -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote: I'd love to learn how to do that WITHOUT A MOUSE On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, jomali jomali3...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: These folks might

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Apr 4, 2013 3:57 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Captchas are not very accessible. Not only do you often need a near super-human ability to identify the scrawl that's displayed, but if you can't actually see very well to start with (maybe your vision isn't perfect or you

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 4-4-2013 14:27, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On Apr 4, 2013 3:57 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: One type I've seen (and use myself) which is gaining traction is that of asking for a human type of response to a question, or have them perform a simple mathematical

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Terry Ally (Gmail)
I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do not want cold-calling SEO marketing messages. Since that message there

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 19:29 +0100, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote: I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do not

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote: I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread tamouse mailing lists
These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really (And my apologies for top posting. It seems Google has forced their new mail compose widget upon me. I can no longer use my own editor to smoothly and easily edit message, and Google forces the top post.) On Tue, Apr 2, 2013

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread jomali
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really (And my apologies for top posting. It seems Google has forced their new mail compose widget upon me. I can no longer use my own editor

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread tamouse mailing lists
I'd love to learn how to do that WITHOUT A MOUSE On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, jomali jomali3...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really (And my apologies

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-02 Thread Sorin Badea
You can take a look at this article http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/04/in-search-of-the-perfect-captcha/ On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Jen Rasmussen j...@cetaceasound.com wrote: Can someone recommend a best practice for blocking spam on web forms (aside from captcha) ? I've