Comments on: Website Spam: What You Can Do About It

By: joomla

joomla — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:00:42 +0000

Good tips thanks for the advice

By: Bustor

Bustor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:22:36 +0000

It is advisable to keep your site spam free and in the long run with safeguards against spam would be very beneficial.
Spams take away your freedom and when you want to concentrate on your site you find yourself clearing the same old useless spam.
I have learned this through experience.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:17:33 +0000

Hi Jon,
I guess it just depends on your preference in the tools you use to stop spam. Many professional websites and businesses use CAPTCHA regularly in their fight against spam. I personally don’t mind it because I know why its there in the first place. For websites that are more “personal” I can see why CAPTCHA would distance you from your users.

99% is a good number to stop spam, but if a website has tens of thousands of messages each day, that would still amount to hundreds of spam that leaked through.
In any event, its good to hear that you’re winning the war against the bots.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:31:35 +0000

CAPTCHA is a total pain and is puts s road block in the way of your users. I have been using this form mailer for years and it has a security feature that blocks about 99% of bot spam without CRAPCHA.
http://www.ultimateformmail.com/

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:23:47 +0000

Hi Josh,
I’ve seen a few of those math CAPTCHAs on various sites. To tell you the truth, the sight of math problems make me a little shaky…I hate math. But it is an effective way of gate keeping websites. Personally, I’ll take the words any day.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:43 +0000

Nice post. I’ve found that bots are getting much better at getting around standard CAPTCHA where you need to recognize numbers and letters. Some programs use basic math problems for the CAPTCHA and this works a little better.

By: Utopie - Liverpool

Utopie - Liverpool — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:44:58 +0000

There are also some JavaScript email text link scramblers. Google javascript email scrambler.

You can also use the token meathod to send forms instead of captcha.

By: Vim

Vim — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:01:31 +0000

I work for a web-design company, and this type of query is very common, however for contact forms we find that CAPTCHA is the most useful method for filtering them annoying spam emails.

By: website design

website design — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:46:13 +0000

Hey that was a really nice post… I work in a website designing company and appreciate it a lot…

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:52:53 +0000

Hi Rob,
Thanks for the additional info. The tips are additional ways to keep nasty spam out. The truth of the matter is that many of those simple tips are not implemented by web developers on their sites. Also, some spam still squeaks through in spite of these safeguards. The ways to stop spam could probably fill a book. A combination of software tools, registration, and moderating posts (which is sometimes impossible due to the heavy traffic) are all but a few tools for a web developer’s arsenal against spam.

Btw, you might want to check out some of the links on your website…some are disabled. Maybe too much spam?
Thanks for dropping by and adding the tips. We really appreciate it.