Comments on: Bah, Spam! http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/ GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:32:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-34936 Barry Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:04:42 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-34936 [i]Try a regular form field, give it tasty sounding name like “comments” or “message” but use CSS to hide it from view. [/i] working well, trapped about 730 spam submissions that way... [i]Try a regular form field, give it tasty sounding name like “comments” or “message” but use CSS to hide it from view. [/i]

working well, trapped about 730 spam submissions that way…

]]> By: Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23984 Barry Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:04:45 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23984 KISS :) KISS :)

]]> By: Paul Dixon http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23980 Paul Dixon Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:55:04 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23980 Try a regular form field, give it tasty sounding name like "comments" or "message" but use CSS to hide it from view. You can label it "leave blank" if you wish, but a bot will just find it irresistable. Drop any form submissions which fill it in! Try a regular form field, give it tasty sounding name like “comments” or “message” but use CSS to hide it from view. You can label it “leave blank” if you wish, but a bot will just find it irresistable. Drop any form submissions which fill it in!

]]> By: Adam http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23956 Adam Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:34:27 +0000 http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2008/03/24/bah-spam/#comment-23956 Akismet is easy to plug in and works really well, so that'd be my suggestion. As for your honey pot data, maybe you can submit it to http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ Akismet is easy to plug in and works really well, so that’d be my suggestion. As for your honey pot data, maybe you can submit it to http://www.projecthoneypot.org/

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