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#1 (permalink)   06-20-2007 virtuatechgirl Guest Company name: Click here to learn how to add your Company Name! Latest blog post: Click here to learn how to add your blog feed! My latest Twitter: Click here to learn how to set up your Tweets!   Posts: n/a Built in spam protection? I guess this question is for the resident Codehead Hamidof Unless someone else knows the answer? I'm working on phasing out ALL spam from my websites and have added a captcha to my forms but I'm still getting spam (through the form) and I just don't know what I can do about it, ironically I thought to post this here after I saw your blog post title in your sig Hamidof because it just happened to be on that very topic. For the purpose of getting the info out there would you mind sharing your own techniques for zero spam, or is that just wishful thinking?

#2 (permalink)   06-26-2007 Codehead Administrator Company name: Codehead LLP My latest blog post: Animation Curves and Tweening; Understanding Anima... My latest Twitter: Searching around about Cocoa Layers and I get this...   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: WA Posts: 173 Sorry for my delay! Unfortunately it's a bit hard to stop spam completely, there are many talented programmers that write spam bots to automatically spam the contact (or any kind of) forms on the web. Some are very sophisticated and they are able to read the captcha images. The first thing you can do is to use an unconventional captcha image like this one: http://www.hamidof.com/Downloads/PHP...aptcha_Script/ Which is freely available for download. There are also other ways to deal with spam; some of those spam bots, spam your form with a message full of links. The links are not in HTML but BB code like: Title If you know PHP, you can write a piece of code to detect and reject these kinds of spam, you can read a discussion about this technique here: http://talk.code-head.com/showthread.php?t=596 I hope this helps. __________________ "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

#3 (permalink)   06-27-2007 virtuatechgirl Guest Company name: Click here to learn how to add your Company Name! Latest blog post: Click here to learn how to add your blog feed! My latest Twitter: Click here to learn how to set up your Tweets!   Posts: n/a Thanks for the links and tips! Very much appreciated