Posted by Tina Peters on 05/02/07 10:56

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
news:1178101327.276409.300800@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> On 1 May, 21:00, "Tina Peters" <t...@axishost.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm saying that spam bots have no reason to try to get around it
>
> Spam bots have no reason to get onto my site, so I have no need for a
> CAPTCHA form at all - real or fake..
>
> If I build the next YouTube/LiveJournal, then I'll immediately become
> interesting to them. Exactly at this point, fake captchas like yours
> become useless.
>
> So just _when_ is your fake form actually useful to me? And why
> should I pay $10 for it?

You don't have to be the next YouTube to become a target of spam bots. One
of my little sites was seeing maybe 1000 visitors per month and the form was
being spammed to death. I think a lot of people with sites that aren't on
the level of YouTube can relate.

Its useful to you when the spam bots find your unprotected form and you
become beyond frustrated with the spam that comes through. You won't find a
solution that is easier to use (except maybe taking your form offline). You
just copy/paste the form bit into your webpage and upload it and one other
file to your site.

Again, I never said this can't be worked around by spam bots. What I've
always said is that its not likely to be for a very long time and many
people are using it with excellent results. Logic dictates that with the
popularity of Captcha, its going to be figured out by spambots wayyy before
my script will be. If you want to do the whole Captcha thing...more power
to you. For those who can't easily figure that out, formmailscript.com
offers a quick/easy/cheap solution.

--Tina

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