I've been doing that one for years (and offered it as potential solution here a few times). Hiding it by CSS or JS is the key.
Typically, I put the normal text field and some text next to it like "dont fill in this field" in a single div then use CSS and/or JS to hide it from real people. It has worked well for me in the past. .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:58 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Hiding email address from spiders I can't find a reference on www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup to the archived presentation, but the basic idea is this: Add a hidden form field that a user can't see, and therefore, won't fill in, and use it to trap a bot/spider. The bot doesn't realize the field is hidden and puts something in it. Check the field when the form is submitted for the presence of a value in the field. If there's a value in the hidden field, don't process the form. I love the idea and hope it works well. I'm going to implement it and see how it goes. Anyone have any experience with this highly efficient, user-friendly method? -----Original Message----- From: Claude Schnéegans <schneeg...@internetique.com> [mailto:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans <schneegans@interneti=71?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue.com=3E?=] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:32 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Hiding email address from spiders >>How about the "honeypot" method that was presented on CFMeetup a few months ago? Never heard of it. Any reference ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
