[thelist] what's the hole in my contact form anti-spam?

Jon Molesa rjmolesa at consoltec.net
Thu Sep 10 10:59:28 CDT 2009


*On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 03:01:46PM +0530 Mohan Arun L <marun2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:01:46 +0530
> From: Mohan Arun L <marun2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] what's the hole in my contact form anti-spam?
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> 
> >>>>You need some way to either test for a human sitting at the form loaded
> into the browser, or some way to test weather the data received actually
> came from the form loaded into a browser.

> >>>
> 
> I get such contact form spam all the time.
> Simply include a recaptcha script as part of your form to verify if
> form submissions are being made by humans.

Yes, specifically I was alluding to recaptcha.  I have used it with
great success.  Though the last time I mentioned it during a similar
discussion, no one seemed to care.
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