Posted by mbstevens on 05/02/07 11:08

On Wed, 02 May 2007 03:22:07 -0700, Andy Dingley wrote:

> 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.

I think the easiest way to kill it, if you have access to the server
mailer program's source, is just to watch the spam that actually comes in
and filter for particular strings that they use which normal posters would
seldom if ever use, dying with an error if one is found. You have to
update the code occasionally, but it only takes a few minutes.
Spam on my forms has gone from about twenty a day to zero, but YMMV.

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