Re: Spam opinions please

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:46 -0300, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: > 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 > You still missed the point I made about Googles captcha being circumvented by bots. Also, as he's stated a few times, the entries are made by humans. I know of no captchas which stop only spammers... Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk