[thelist] Hidden fields don't stop spam

[Gersten, John]

Sorry if I'm a bit of a broken-record on this (er, if anyone understands
that hoary metaphor these days) but if you don't need to allow visitors
to send you URLs, testing for http:// and https:// and rejecting any
mail containing same has reduced our form spam to zero. If you do want
or need to allow visitors to send you hyperlinks, then obviously this
method is not for you. 

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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Chris Price
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Hidden fields don't stop spam
> 
> That's really useful. Thanks Phil.
> 
> 2009/10/29 Phil Turmel <pturmel-webdev at turmel.org>
> 
> > Chris Price wrote:
> > > Thanks Lee that's really helpful.
> > >
> > > It was a bit of shock getting a load of spam as soon as I'd put an
> > anti-spam
> > > measure in place.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Some old threads you might be interested in...
> >
> > http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20071029/192451.html
> > http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20080121/193331.html
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Phil
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