Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-06 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Apr 4, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > or you can't see at all) then you have to fall back to the audio > replacement offered by the captcha. I've tried listening to some, and > they are awful. > > > Thanks, > Ash Ash: How about the second one down? Can you hear this one clear e

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote: > I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night > SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get > so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 19:29 +0100, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote: > I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night > SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get > so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do > not

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Terry Ally (Gmail)
I am running captcha but the problem that I am having is that fly-by-night SEO marketeers are using the form to send marketing messages anyway. We get so many spam messages that I put up in red letters on the form that we do not want cold-calling SEO marketing messages. Since that message there has

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Maciek Sokolewicz
On 4-4-2013 14:27, tamouse mailing lists wrote: On Apr 4, 2013 3:57 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" wrote: One type I've seen (and use myself) which is gaining traction is that of asking for a human type of response to a question, or have them perform a simple mathematical problem, where the numbers ar

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Apr 4, 2013 3:57 AM, "Ashley Sheridan" wrote: > > Captchas are not very accessible. Not only do you often need a near super-human ability to identify the scrawl that's displayed, but if you can't actually see very well to start with (maybe your vision isn't perfect or you can't see at all) then

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-04 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 20:32 -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote: > I'd love to learn how to do that WITHOUT A MOUSE > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, jomali wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists > > wrote: > >> > >> These folks might have direction for you: http://te

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread tamouse mailing lists
I'd love to learn how to do that WITHOUT A MOUSE On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:10 PM, jomali wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists > wrote: >> >> These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really >> >> (And my apologies for top posting. It seems Google h

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread jomali
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, tamouse mailing lists < tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really > > (And my apologies for top posting. It seems Google has forced their > new mail compose widget upon me. I can no longer use my own ed

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-03 Thread tamouse mailing lists
These folks might have direction for you: http://textcaptcha.com/really (And my apologies for top posting. It seems Google has forced their new mail compose widget upon me. I can no longer use my own editor to smoothly and easily edit message, and Google forces the top post.) On Tue, Apr 2, 2013

Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-02 Thread Sorin Badea
You can take a look at this article http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/04/in-search-of-the-perfect-captcha/ On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Jen Rasmussen wrote: > Can someone recommend a best practice for blocking spam on web forms (aside > from captcha) ? > > > > I've been for the mos

FW: [PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-02 Thread Jen Rasmussen
ginal Message- From: Sorin Badea [mailto:sorin.bade...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 2:20 PM To: j...@cetaceasound.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] webform spam prevention You can take a look at this article http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/04/in-search-o

[PHP] webform spam prevention

2013-04-02 Thread Jen Rasmussen
Can someone recommend a best practice for blocking spam on web forms (aside from captcha) ? I've been for the most part utilizing a honeypot method and then individually blocking IPs and am looking for a more efficient method that won't require daily maintenance. I've come across this mod