Re: Be careful! Look at what this spammer did.

On Mon, August 15, 2005 4:57 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a form that my visitors can email me from. Some jerk is trying > to fool the mail() function into sending his spam, and I got this > today: Put a CAPTCHA on the form. The jerk is probably not actually using your form, but a script that walks the net looking for forms that have name="xyz" where xyz is something that looks like a contact form or the URL has "contact" in it or... Anyway, if CAPTCHA doesn't do it, you can also put in a throttle to only accept N posts from IP a.b.c.d within X hours. Not completely foolproof, but what spammer will bother to change his IP address to send out junk when there are so many open relays and wide-open email forms out there? And, yeah, if more than N people who work at "Big Company" try to post within X hours, you'll lock them out, but how likely is that? -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm