Re: ASCII Captcha
| From: | Ross McKay | Date: | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:40:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ASCII Captcha | ||
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:49:15 +0100, Stut wrote:
>Field names
>Don't name fields things like name, email, address, postcode, message,
>etc. Instead name them a, b, c, d, e, etc but name your hidden field
>email. That should provoke most bots into changing that value and
>leaves others unsure what to put where so they ignore the form.
The downside of this one is that auto-fill in Firefox will not know how
to populate an email field, a name field, and address field, etc. so
these frequently typed fields will need to be entered by a (now
aggravated) visitor who normally gets to just press down arrow, tab.
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Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia
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