Re: Spam using email on website

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 02:20 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:42 +0200, Pieter du Toit wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > I have a website that is being crawled or whatever and i have a submission > > form for an event. > > > > I keep on getting random mail from this form. > > > > I have even disabled the submit button on the form, but keep on getting it. > > > > What can i do? > > Check for keywords in the spam, excessive links, or block the source IP > address. You could also route the entry into your email spam filter > system if you have one and then delete it if it fails. Either way, > spammers don't use web browsers. They do direct posting once they've > profiled your page's form and that doesn't require a button. And on the subject of spam, how about you use a real email address so I don't the following afte rbeing so nice to respond to your question... <pieterdt@telkomsa.net>: host mail.telkomsa.net[196.25.211.150] said: 554 Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) (in reply to RCPT TO command) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'