Spam-bot protection

How well does the spam bot protection on the registration page work? Do you guys still get a significant number of "illegitimate users" signing up everyday? My forum gets about 20 per day and it's not that popular, and I'm tired of deleting them all.

Actually, I can count the spammers we've had since I added that on one hand (though I might have to cheat and use binary). It works very well so long as whatever you do is unique to your site. So whether it's a question that in itself contains the answer, a math problem, or an option box with the default set to failure (bots will often pick the default for unknown fields, that's the logic here), or whatever, it doesnt even have to be all that clever, you can stop most of your spam.

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    Fred

    If the email address is ONLY mentioned in the PHP script,
    it's completely
    secure.
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    >I have created a form and using a PHP script to forward
    the form results to
    >an
    > e mail account. How protected is this from harvesting
    the e mail address
    > by
    > spam bots? If this is not the best way to go, any
    suggestions on a better
    > method. I'm familiar with captcha but would prefer not
    to have to use
    > this.
    >
    > thnx
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  • Spamming, Bots and morever

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    From VZW Website FAQ;
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  • Spam free contact forms

    I am not sure where to start on this. I am newish to
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    http://tinyurl.com/6plop6 (the
    same as the above thread, only much shorter)
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    <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:ght3t3$ks1$[email protected]..
    >I am not sure where to start on this. I am newish to
    dreamweaver and have
    > created a very basic site for my hobby which does not
    make much money. I
    > had on
    > there a contact me button which I later added a found of
    the net scramble
    > code
    > to try and block spam.
    >
    > This does not have seemed to worked.
    >
    > I have found myself some free code for a contact me form
    with captcha
    > thing at
    > the bottom. This is all and good, but within the code is
    my email address
    > for
    > the bots to still find.
    >
    > I have seen sites who host similar forms and have a
    database where my
    > email
    > address would hide. However as my website is just a
    display for my hobby,
    > the
    > cost of paying someone else to maintain this is rather
    pointless.
    >
    > My web hoster allows me access to a free SQL database
    and I am led to
    > believe
    > that I can host this script and database on my account
    with my web hoster.
    >
    > Can anyone help with script/code or somewhere I can
    start to look to set
    > up
    > this database and code on my own servers rather than pay
    a third party to
    > do it?
    >
    > Thanks
    > Tracie
    >

  • Anti-Spam measures on feedback form

    Originally posted using Google Groups but it has not appeared
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    > Dooza wrote:
    >
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    >
    >
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    -Daniel Hoviss

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