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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 n... 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 mat... 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.... read more »
