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Re: How to prevent contact form spam?

Subject: Re: How to prevent contact form spam?
From: "Xander Zerge" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: macromedia.dreamweaver

> > It stops users without JS.
 >
 > So, images stops users with browsers with no images

 Wrong.

 What is the difference? Just look from another side: without using full power 
of visitors browsers, you are limiting their possibilities. Compare GMail JS 
and HTML for example. First is much better. Without use of JS, you are 
requiring 90% of your visitors to work with less powerful application than it 
can be.

 This wasn't my question. Maybe this is easier for you:

 ( ) fight spam bots
 ( ) make site userfriendly

 Pick one.

 Why one? I am picking both.

 Unnecessary overhead. Script execution can take a measurable amount of
 time on less powerful machines.

 Yes, it can take. But let CPU work instead of visitors, who wanted to tell you 
something, but you ask them to solve brain-teasers first.

 You seem to find it OK to lose visitors. I don't.
 You seem to have 0% bounce rate at your sites? :-)

 That was surely not what I meant. Some other general ideas in no
 particular order:

 * contact form
 NO. I prefer to contact by e-mail, to have message stored in "Sent", use CCs 
and BCCs.

 * user interaction (e.g. checkbox) to reveal the mail addresses

 Bot can press checkbox easily.

 * addresses only shown to authenticated users

 Not every site is so important to register on it just to leave a message.

 * server-side spam filters

 Cheap shared hosting may have no such filter.

 * ...

 Yes, this one looks most powerful. :-)

 Xander


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