Posted by Tina Peters on 05/01/07 20:00

"Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@ecritters.biz> wrote in message
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> Tina Peters wrote:
> > and yet, I've been using it for close to a year with ZERO spam issues.
>
> That's because spammers typically go for the very low-hanging fruit and
> ignore everything else; it has nothing to do with the merits of your
> 'CAPTCHA'.


Thank you for making the argument for my form (which I never said was
CAPTCHA). ;-)

I never said my form couldn't be cracked. I'm saying that spam bots have no
reason to try to get around it and will probably be a very long time before
they even try. In the almost year that I've been using it, we went from
about 99% bot generated spam to 1% legitimate email ratio from our
form....to 100% legit. That's ZERO bot generated spams for almost a year.
For $10, its more than worth it.

Also, as you so rightly suggested, guess which method spammers are going to
try to get around first? CAPTCHA, which millions of sites currently
use...or my form, which *maybe* 200 people use. Do you honestly think
CAPTCHA is 100% spam proof? I'm sure that's not what you're trying to
imply.

--Tina

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