From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, DAve wrote:
Just curious if anyone else was seeing this besides me. I suspect the
spammers
are making a new attempt to find web forms they can abuse and possibly
the
robots are just not smart enough to know that our forms don't work the
way
they suspect.
Seeing it too, others have described it in detail.
At this point it's just anoying, with users receiving many forms with this
garbage. Since the requests seem to come in rapid succession, I've thought
about an IP cache, and limiting the number of times an IP can submit the
form per unit time. It hasn't gone past the idea stage.
Has anybody observed the odd things you must go through to establish
or edit accounts with many larger forms based servers like e-bay or
yahoo? The "read the text from an image and type it in" forms are
about the only thing that slow down the spammers.
Although there is something to be said for requiring a user ID and a
password that cannot be automatically signed up for when using forms
that can send to addresses other than one that is hard wired in and
immutable. (If that is possible in all possible cases.)
{^_^}
