On 12/18/2008 at 1:42 AM Rick Moen sent: >Quoting Bill Kendrick ([email protected]): > >> It looks like my Tux Paint survey's backend script is only sending me >> fields I know about, and that make sense for that form. So I'm not even >> seeing the junk that the spammers' bots think is being posted on some >> online forum. It just vanishes, and I'm left with the nonsense. >> (Verus the "<a href="...">online dating!</a>", or whatever.) > >Aha! > >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.
Like Bill, I don't like CAPTCHAs. I like the simplicity of Rick's solution, but I already have a simple one working so I probably won't change it. I am listing it here in case the spammers figure out to ignore invisible fields or for any reason this works better on your site. When, like Bill, I started getting a huge number of spam in my form submissions, I added: To reduce the many SPAM entries we receive, we regret that we must ask you to please enter the sum of 2, 3 (e.g. sum of 1, 2 is 3) In 3 months, I haven't received another spam. If the spammers do ever figure it out, I suspect a minor change in the numbers or phrasing will fix it. - Larry _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
