EMail Spam Disaster

Monday, September 5th, 2005 at 1600

Don’t bother writing to me to tell me my contact form is broken. I have taken it offline after receiving a huge amount fo virusicated, multipart emails through it.

Damn spammers. **I don’t want your herbal viagra. Stopit.**

I’m investigating the problem, but really if spammers are now hitting contact forms as well as comments without resorting to captchas or silly general knowledge questions I’m a little short on ideas.

If you have any suggestions as to how to prevent comment-form abuse, especially using this comment form plugin: http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/ then I’d love to hear from you.

4 Comment for “EMail Spam Disaster”

  1. zimmer Said this on

    Have you seen this method of recognition using a graphic representation of a text string?

    It means the password is a picture, so a bot cannot read it, and not send a post…..
    look at posting a comment here
    http://www.occupiedcountry.blogspot.com/

  2. Denyerec Said this on

    CAPTCHAs or something they’re called, yarrr. Most people seem to complain about them getting in the way which I can agree with. Mind you, for something like the email contact form it’s not seeing heavy use so maybe it’d work out.

  3. Syrus Said this on

    BUY MY V15y4JEGF$£_T

    What I really hate is spam mail that doesn’t even try to advertise something. Verry bizzare, it’s like spam for no reason….at all.

    No idea why I left this comment

  4. Marco Raaphorst Said this on

    Recieved an email by Ryan saying: ‘Firas is working on a security release for this weekend’

    Might be good.

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