Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread James Butler
Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, James Butler wrote: >> . Gibberish in the form is just a probe. > > My experience has been that the gibberish gets around simplistic tests > for 'empty' fields. That's why I advocate the use of a field that > *should* be empty. :) > > - C > Great id

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, James Butler wrote: . Gibberish in the form is just a probe. My experience has been that the gibberish gets around simplistic tests for 'empty' fields. That's why I advocate the use of a field that *should* be empty. :) - C

Re: Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: little uncomfortable making the form submit any more complicated than necessary, since the people who use it are generally already stressed, and I'd prefer to not make them decipher swirly letters. I find that most form-fillers are robots and s

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
Quoting James Butler : Jason Bertoch wrote: On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. My guess is that it's a spammer's bot looking for a broken web form

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
Quoting Jay Plesset : I've been getting 2 or 3 of these daily. The mail address typically matches the "name" put in, it's always a gmail address, and so far, it's always been a bad mail address. It's more an annoyance than a problem, my mailing program sends out a confirm, and when it bounces

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread James Butler
Jason Bertoch wrote: > On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: >> >> Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for >> someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. >> > > My guess is that it's a spammer's bot looking for a broken web form to > abuse. > M

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread Jay Plesset
I've been getting 2 or 3 of these daily. The mail address typically matches the "name" put in, it's always a gmail address, and so far, it's always been a bad mail address. It's more an annoyance than a problem, my mailing program sends out a confirm, and when it bounces, I remove the bogus e

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. My guess is that it's a spammer's bot looking for a broken web form to abuse.

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
Quoting "--[ UxBoD ]--" : - te...@cnysupport.com wrote: I've recently started receiving web form "spam", but I'm not quite sure what to make of it. . . . Recently, I've started receiving forms that contain random keyboard letters that look l

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
- te...@cnysupport.com wrote: > I've recently started receiving web form "spam", but I'm not quite > sure what to make of it. > > My websites contains a couple of support request forms that ask for > minimal information (business name, name

[OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
I've recently started receiving web form "spam", but I'm not quite sure what to make of it. My websites contains a couple of support request forms that ask for minimal information (business name, name, phone, problem, email address). Recently, I've sta