Doug
Member since Dec 11, 2008
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Recent Blog Comments By Doug
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My Non-Working Anti-Spam Solution And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work)
Posted on Feb 11, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Al covered my point. I've done this before too and noticed very quickly how spam came in bursts for the window of a form's active state. If you log the failures or session-ban them based on invalid submissions, it might help. But it might not if they are using a proxy (or many proxies). I often noti... read more »
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Fully Accessible Spam-Form-Submission Blocking Using ColdFusion And (X)HTML (Version III)
Posted on Nov 17, 2006 at 10:44 PM
Good ideas. I am with you though - I'd rather start simple and expand it if needed. It's actually a good learning experience to see if the spammers do defeat the easier to implement countermeasures. But it's nice to have a plan B for when that does happen too. Thanks for your thoughts on this matter... read more »
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Fully Accessible Spam-Form-Submission Blocking Using ColdFusion And (X)HTML (Version III)
Posted on Nov 16, 2006 at 11:28 PM
I like this idea a lot. As in that CF-talk discussion, I like the idea of a single field that says "Leave Blank" next to it rather than a whole section to be ignored though. If you know how blind users navigate (by headings and links and form elements often), that text could very well be missed. But... read more »