Posted by Brian Cryer on 07/06/06 11:48

"PeterMcC" <peter@mccourt.org.uk> wrote in message
news:44ace206$0$975$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
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> That's not the usual problem associated with FormMail- Matt's script, once
> widely used, was vulnerable to being used for spammers to send out spam
> via
> someone else's FormMail.

I think the original problem with FormMail was that spammers were using the
script to send emails to other people's domains, so using it as a sort of
open proxy.

The common problem now is that FormMail is being used to spam the domain
that it is being used to serve - either because the bot is loading the form
in a web page and submitting it or because it is simulating the post event
of the form. Both of which are easy to do. The way forward is probably to
use "captcha" (see the reply from to your identical posting in
alt.www.webmaster), but that's something I still need to come up to speed
on.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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