Spam to form

[jcmban...@postmaster.co.uk]

I know this stuff is impossible to stop, but we have a website. This
website has an inquiry form.

Unfortunately, we get loads of junk messages. Short of tracking these
messages via the traffic, which may be impossible. Is there anyway to
find the user.

There is also the challenge box (you know where the poster has to fill
in a copy of the image).

Anyway, I've raised this issue with the host of the website. My boss
is a techno ninny and doesn't realise these are junk and wasting our
time.

ANy suggestions on how to deal with this?

[Nathan]

Have you thought about IP tracking/banning, also maybe running the
messages through a spam filter? I've got some reply-to forms on the
okopipi.org site which get forwarded to my email address which has a
few spam filters on it - the result is that I hardly get any spam from
it.

Also, if you take a look at your website's logfiles you should be able
to grep out who's been accessing your contact form.

Nathan

On Oct 25, 10:50 am, "jcmbanner...@postmaster.co.uk"

[Paul Herring]

A 'hidden' form (as in CSS hidden) which the spam bot uses, but normal users cannot see.

The hidden form does nothing, the user visible form does what the current one does.

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Sick of spam? http://www.knujon.com/

[Kirk Z Bailey]

A bag of clues, some clue glue, and a large cleft stick to hammer them
in with?

OR, have accounting prepare a whie paper detailing how many man hours a
quarter are wasted paying people to wade through trash mail to find the
communications actually relevant to the firm's legitimate business
activity. THIS may be a format a manager can assimilate.

If this last fails, parking lot therapy may be called for. Please
advise, I have a friend with a nondescript 4X4 truck.

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Very Truly yours,
- Kirk Bailey,
Largo Florida

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