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Topic: spam problem

Posted By: site master
Subject: spam problem
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 4:12pm

what is the best way to secure an email form(except captcha's)?

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 4:17pm

secure against what? Bots? You can create a form in flash or java, afaik most bots are unable to submit those.

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Posted By: site master
Date Posted: 20 August 2006 at 4:25pm

secure agianst spammers... and bots
and i dont know flash or java

is there any thing else?

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Posted By: bootcom
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 7:15pm

The easiest way ?? Not to have any forms at all !!!!

Personally when introducing forms on my site, I beef them up a little bit. I probabaly use way too much security but then again, that's better than none at all.

Heres some i use:

Server and client side validation.
Log how many times the user is submitting forms, say if they are spammers, this will block them off after x number of times of posting.
Some users may not be spammers, they may just keep on pressing the submit button. Include a bit of js code to account for that.
CAPTCHA's are not your enemy !! They are your friend, anything that protects you against a wealth of spamming is ok in my book.
The bot's you're trying to not let in ? These like search ro - bots ?? There's plenty of good material out there to help you distinguish between a real user and a bot. Check out http://www.4guysfromrolla.com - www.4guysfromrolla.com
I've also got checks against where the user is posting from.

Sure, there's a lot of work to be done if you don't like the spammers / flooders on your site. It's taken me approximately 5 - 10,000 lines of code to get anywhere near happy with what I have (and I do concede the amount of checks I use is too many). Hopefully there's some pointers there as to how you can safeguard your forms.

Posted By: site master
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 2:40pm

Thanks
1.client side validation is uslees in this form
2.done!
3.done!
4.no room for a captcha in this page
5.thanks!
6.got one too...

i think i dont need any thing else thank you for your answer

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