Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-20 Thread Daniel Koch
an anon email account from yahoo.com -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions I've got a mod_perl feed-back form that sends mail to a specific

[OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a mod_perl feed-back form that sends mail to a specific address.. Spammers have their bots hitting the form now. The tricks I know of are: - generate a random image of numbers and make the user type in the numbers on the form. Painful for the user and spammers probably have OCR! -

RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Clare, Bruce W
of emails actually sent. Downside is that if they scan the outgoing emails from their machine, they can spam the email address. -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Ideas for limiting form

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Perrin Harkins
Bill Moseley wrote: what would you recommend for caching the md5 strings. Cache::Cache or DBM? I suppose a Cache::Cache file cache would be the easiest. In order of speed: IPC::MM BerkeleyDB (with built-in locking) Cache::Mmap Cache::FileBackend (from Cache::Cache -- no need to use

RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Narins, Josh
, 2002 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions I've got a mod_perl feed-back form that sends mail to a specific address.. Spammers have their bots hitting the form now. The tricks I know of are: - generate a random image of numbers and make the user type

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Issac Goldstand
- Original Message - Subject: RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions Can GIMP be programmatically set up to warp/woof/weird-out an image? Yahoo's warped words works, I bet, since they use it. I'm referring to get getting an anon email account from yahoo.com They actually use

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
At 02:51 PM 12/18/02 -0500, Daniel Koch wrote: Check out Gimpy, which I believe is what Yahoo uses: http://www.captcha.net/captchas/gimpy/ I'm thinking of something along those lines. This problem is this is on Solaris 2.6 w/o root, and I'll bet it would take some time to get The Gimp and GTK

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Vivek Khera
BM == Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM I've got a mod_perl feed-back form that sends mail to a specific address.. BM Spammers have their bots hitting the form now. The tricks I know of are: Rename your script and the link pointing to it. It will take some time for them to follow.