[thelist] spammers - perpetrators]

[Bob Meetin]

It's been a week, a little tweaking here/there, but mostly the SPAM is 
under control. Again the latest examples at:

http://www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/scripts/comment_form.php
http://www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/scripts/comment_form.txt (text 
version - see the code)

In the live form I have fields to enter a first and last name.  Since I 
started tracking the IP's and the text entered in these fields I see 
that in about 90+% of what is attempted the spambot commonly dumps a 
similar long text string into both.  Not many real people have the same 
long first and last name.  I set up the logfile as a simple pipe 
delimited file.  If you really wanted you could load it into a 
spreadsheet and sort by IP, first name, etc.  This is almost fun...  The 
log looks like:

comment_form.php | 2008-02-04-20:49:30 | 81.169.172.195 | madollium | 
madollium
comment_form.php | 2008-02-04-20:50:29 | 87.99.79.92 | cearratrismib | 
cearratrismib
comment_form.php | 2008-02-04-21:14:48 | 85.114.133.77 | Nevenouse | 
Nevenouse
comment_form.php | 2008-02-04-20:41:19 | 87.99.79.91 | Foolybealmery | 
Foolybealmery

I'd still love to hear back suggestions how/where to report the 
abusers?  BTW, what are commonly accepted string lengths for first name, 
last name and email (perhaps 20-30-40)?

-Bob