In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.win.antwerp.seagha.com>, Piet Hadermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Mike, > >I 100% agree with 2 and 4. Before you know it someone is using this to >send spam without you having any clue it's happening. > >I recently fixed the 'contact/feedback form' for a bunch of sites I >maintain by filtering out all posts containing any kind of http links. >Real users allmost never posted links (and if they do, they get a nice >message now), those botposts almost always contain links (except the >kind that I think looks for contact forms exploitable for spamming).
So you put the message on screen, instead of "thank for your enquiry" sort of thing? What do you say? I have never been sure how many of these messages are being placed by bots, and how many by humans, because I just delete them without examining them. I suspect that a lot of these spams believe that their link will appear on your site automatically, as some blogs seem to allow that. >This kind of form spamming got a lot worse the last 2-3 months it seems, >and a lot of this went undetected by the spamfilter. Yes, I must get round to doing something, before I wear out my delete button <G> -- Pete Clark Andalucia in Sunny Southern Spain http://www.hotcosta.com/comm_1.htm Community email addresses: Post message: php-list@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
