[Web4lib] Stopping form mail spam

[Tom Keays]

Dagon Design has an excellent open source form for stopping form spam.
It is based on PHP, which has inherent vulnerabilities to form email
spam. Before I found this, I was getting all set to roll my own. Since
I implemented, I no longer have spammage.

http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-php-form-mailer-script/

Tom

On 9/14/06, Andrew Mutch <amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions for a good form mail script or alternative that I
> can use for web-based form submissions that is fairly spam resistant? I'm
> using the most recent (not very) version of NMS form mail but the spammers
> appear to have that pretty well busted. I've done a few tricks that has
> slowed down some of the more basic spam attempts but the more
> sophisticated operations are bypassing the online form completely. I don't
> want to put in place anything that's going to hinder accessability and I'm
> willing to put up with some spam if I have to have a trade-off but the
> volume of it is getting pretty ridiculous.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>
>
>
> > "Hear hear!" to everything Bill Denton said, plus which:
> >
> > On 9/14/2006 12:52 PM, William Denton wrote:
> >>
> >> Online contact forms are one way to hide from spammers...
> >
> > ...until you start getting form submission spam.  Our contact form
> > routinely gets things like "Question or comment: CLICK HERE TO WIN
> > HERBAL V1AGRA AT OUR ONLINE CASINO!!!!!"
> >
> >
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Tom