On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:42:07AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > I've just come across, on an online discussion of this sort of spam, > what sounds like a truly brilliant idea for authors of Web forms: > > The best solution we found to spam contacts is to have an invisible > field called 'email'. If it's filled, then it's spam, and ignored. We > haven't received a single spam contact on any of our sites since > implementing this.
Trying it. I dislike CAPTCHA's (DailyWTF has some good examples of 'gone-wrong', such as this: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/5365/116255.aspx ) and since I'm the only human receiving the junk, the form doesn't have to be uber-secure... just less annoying to _me_. -- -bill! "Tux Paint" - free children's drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux! Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
