[thelist] Hidden fields don't stop spam

[Will]

the honeypot field relies on the input to hidden with css, not
type="hidden". Even then, I have to return a success message for the
spammers to layoff - otherwise they'll just try until they get a
success message, relentless little shits that they are. at least that
was my experience with a couple of honeypot forms.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Gersten, John <JGERSTEN at lchb.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
>> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Chris Price
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:38 AM
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> 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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