Spammers Suck

So yesterday I had an interesting comment on an old post of mine. I decided to leave the comment up there in case anyone feels tempted to follow Ray's advice. However, coincidentally I've had someone using my 'Send Entry' page as a Spam factory ever since that comment. Thanks to this lowlife I've had to implement CAPTCHA on both my send entry page and my contact page. I'm holding off on the comments, but if things get bad I'll have to do those too. My apologies to my readers. Please do not let this dissuade you from sending entires or contacting me.

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Todd,

I implemented CFFormProtect on a number of contact forms and it works very well.

Have a look here: http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org
# Posted By Dan Wilson | 3/26/08 1:21 PM
OK apparently the losers are actually doing this by hand, so now I'm tracking IPs and banning them one by one.

Unbelievable...

I will have to look into that Dan, thanks.
# Posted By todd sharp | 3/26/08 4:55 PM
At the risk of promoting my own stuff, I have a (free/os) SpamFilter.cfc that should eliminate most form spam - even if it is manually entered.

http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/blog/index.cfm/...
# Posted By Steve Bryant | 3/26/08 6:04 PM

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