[FRIAM] Comment Spam!

[Roger Critchlow]

Hmm, what goes around.  There's an article on Slashdot yesterday,
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/11/12/2048219.shtml, about hiding email
addresses on web pages, which leads to this article on SANS,
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1836, about avoiding contact
form spam.

The trick, it appears, is to make your web page into a honeypot for
web bots.  You load the page with text form entry fields which are
hidden, or style="display:none", so they don't appear to your user on
the web page.  You leave the hidden fields empty.  When the bot
mindlessly fills them in, you reject the submission.

-- rec --


On 10/27/06, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> Wow!  I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces!
>
> I had heard about it but had not personally experienced it.  Its why
> you get those weird and annoying "tell me what this distorted image
> says" tickets before being able to enter your comment for forums or
> blogs.
>
> So I've instituted several suggestions on this page:
>    http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Combat_Comment_Spam
> .. but it seems a difficult problem to solve, other than simply
> moderating every comment.
>
> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites?  Any
> interesting solutions?
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
>
>
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