Jul

My Spam Counter Measures Over A Week Later

Written by Neil Galloway

It has been over a week now and I have not had a single piece of automated spam. This is spam that was obviously put there by a bot or something. I did have a couple comments that were definitely an advertisement for another site, but its topic was in the context of the article so I let it slide.

Overall I am quite happy and it has cut down on my workload tremendously. All I did was copy the bitmap below from a website and I include it on the comment form for all my articles. The image is always the same, never changes, but it has fooled the spam bots so far. If that ever changes, I will revisit my strategy again and make it a bit more complicated.

Feel free to copy this same image or make up your own. Just add some code to fail if the verification number they input is not correct. It will fool them for the first while for sure.

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1 Comments

Ash Christopher Says:
2007-07-05 12:59:57
Maybe just toss a captca on there?

I have one for my site http://newthink.net/contactme and it works wonders.

It is just a pair of files; I can sent them if you wanted to give it a shot.