[Bf-webcontent] Spam to the links section

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Yeah, this is a good way to prevent automated spamming. However, at 
only 5 of these messages a week (which might as well be input by 
humans), I'm afraid that the amount of work to implement this is a bit 
too much for me ;-)

Bart

Op 17-nov-04 om 2:02 heeft Compman het volgende geschreven:

> One thing I would recommend (which would make spamming the system via 
> an automatic program impossible unless they hack into MySQL) is to 
> have the contact form generate an image with a number in it and the 
> user is required to key in that number before Typo will accept the 
> form. If the spam keeps coming through then someone is manually keying 
> in these things. Just a suggestion.
>
> -Compman
>
> At 06:54 AM 11/16/2004, you wrote:
>> Hi guys,  the links section is being tapped by spam,  with a  number 
>> of totally non-blender related sites being submitted regularly.
>>
>> well it has gotten to be weird.
>>
>> 33% of submissions are genuine submissions
>> 33% are spam
>> about 20% are sites that don't exist or are not blender related but 
>> are 3d related.
>> and 10% are professional sites.
>>
>>
>> the amount of spam and totally blender non-related submissions is 
>> pretty crazy.  (its not huge in quantity. i.e. maybe 5 e-mails total 
>> per week)  but the proportion is a bit weird.
>>
>> much of the spam is webhosting companys (i.e. resellers probably)
>>
>> any suggestions on fixing this problem.
>>
>>
>> Douglas Ollivier (Alltaken)
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