Posted by wayne on 05/02/07 11:35

mbstevens wrote:
> 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.
>

Perhaps you should look at the free form here: www.tectite.com

There is a setting to defeat multiple urls from being inserted anywhere
in the form. I use it with a setting og "1" for the number of urls to
allow and it has virtually stopped this kind of postings. The forms are
used here:
bayareabluegrass.org on the "Fire on the Strings" page mostly. The
organization was getting 10 or more spams a day, from a relatively low
traffic site.


--
Wayne
www.glenmeadows.us
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short,
who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the
individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor
such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." [Einstein]

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