Re: Spam opinions please

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:36 -0300, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: > > That will work just for one IP, but they could spam you from another > IP. I suggest you add a good captcha to the form and that way you can > avoid spam forever. > > Regards, > > Jonathan > > Firstly, in_array() is used in his example, so it will look for all the IP addresses in the > array, not just one. > > Secondly, even the best captchas can be got around. Just look at what happened to Google a > while back. And then what if you make the captcha too hard to discern? You'd essentially be > breaking the law by impeding hard of seeing or blind users... > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > Even if he puts a list or range of IPs he could always be attacked from an IP not in that list/range. About the blind users, he can use recaptcha (recently aquired by Google), http://recaptcha.net/, which has an audio version captcha. I'm not saying that the filter by IP won't work, but it won't be 100% effective, and a captcha will. Regards, Jonathan