You probably shouldn't block that stuff in a memo/comment field simply because people may have those in their signature and will copy past that into every comment, but with judicious use of validation of phone, email, URL and such on those fields that have a very specific function, you can block a lot. In those fields that are not looking for a specific type such as first name, last name, and password, you could block URL and emails. I find that 90% of my spam put their URL/Email crap in every field.
Another good trick (sorry I don't remember who mentioned this in an earlier thread before, probably Ben) is to have a hidden checkbox called "accept" or "TOS" and look for it to be checked. If it is you have a bot. (insert nasty response here) I'm sure captcha is a good response to eliminate bots, but a lot of my code will be viewed by the disabled community and it needs to be 508 compliant, and to be honest most captcha is hardly readable by me! I need to code for ease of use for the most disabled client I have which would be a blind paraplegic using the suck straw to navigate, text to speech, on a 56k modem with windows 98. On 11/20/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 17 Nov 2007, Richard Dillman wrote: > > Maybe this is a little too simple, but I simply block any non email > fields > > from containing an "@" or "http://"; or "www." > > Obviously not somewhere where people post links. > > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to continually participate essential e-commerce > on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England > and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address > is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is > available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a > partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells > LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it > nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its > existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please > delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:293622 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
