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I have been having the same problems as the other two forums have had.
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I have had some of my forms submitted with utter rubbish and obviously I want it to stop.
Two questions;
1. All my forms which are directed to my clients are usually filled out by the spammers within 2 minutes of each other or 15 minutes of each other so I think they are being filled out with an actual person, (If so, I think it is quite funny). The forms don’t bother me but they are submitted to some of my clients. Their either for the usa or .ru
2. When people like me are having these problems are they actually being filled out by automated bots?
3. THIS IS MY MAIN QUESTION:
On a lot of forms I find that when you fill out the form you have to also type in a set of letters and numbers from a box in order to verify the form.
For example, I found this site which uses the same method that I am interested in using <snip> (the only difference is I want the picture box a little harder to read so that you have to type in carefully the correct letters and text. My forms are simple html scripts.
how I arrange this type of verification on my submission forms.
Regards
[edited by: encyclo at 1:41 am (utc) on Aug. 19, 2006]
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"What color is an orange?"
"One plus one equals?"
"Who is the president of the United States?"
2. When people like me are having these problems are they actually being filled out by automated bots?
Most of the time, YES, and even if they are not, it is more important to understand that they are sending the data directly to whatever processes your form. They visit your form only to see where it posts to and gather the form fields. In truth, even THIS process can be automated.
It is the form processor that the form posts to that you need to alter to put a stop to this. several methods have been suggesed in both of those links.
