> > How about the "honeypot" method > > Anyone have any experience with this highly efficient, > > I have used it and several others like it such as naming a hidden form field > emailaddress and tracking cookies from page to page and other methods and > it does reduce automated bots but does not eliminate them. The bots > generally read a form and then brute force attack it filling out or not > filling out fields to bypass this exact method. While I fully agree in > principal that the form protection should be transparent the use of a simple > 3-5 characters short and legible captcha has so far been the absolute best > deterrent to automated bots that I have found.
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