I like those ideas, thanks :-) --nahum
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:23, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:36 AM, nahum <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I'm now getting a significant amount of spam signups. Has anyone used > any > > third party plugins to prevent this they liked? There are the captcha > type > > solutions, anyone know of any math based ones? > > One clever idea I ran into was to rename your email and name fields > but still create hidden fields called email and name. This way anybody > who fills out the field called "email" is a bot and you can take the > appropriate response. It's non intrusive for the user as they don't > really care what the fields are named. > > I have often thought of dynamically naming your fields with guids or > something and keeping the field names in flash or in a session > variable. This would also prevent double submits. I haven't seen this > done anywhere but it seems doable and a simple solution to spam as the > spammer has no idea of what the fields are to be called. You can > combine this with the above to throw in a couple of bogus fields in > there and reject any submission with the bogus fields filled in. > > Just some ideas if you have time to fool around. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WellRailed" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WellRailed" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wellrailed?hl=en.
