On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA)

[Peter W A Wood]

another trick is to hide an html field with a name that would encourage a bot to complete it such as "password" and then ignore any request which has it filled in.

On 6 Mar 2011, at 06:01, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

> another trick is to not name your html fields not so obvious. Most bots look for email fields and fill in garbage into the rest. So naming your fields "Applepie", "Rocketbooster" and "Sacknut" instead of "email", "about" and "password" will actually get rid of quite a few of the smarter bots.
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> On 5 Mar 2011, at 22:51, Robert Mann wrote:
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>> Hi so far the simple "double" field solution has eliminated spams :
>> I just require the email info to be written a second time in order to check
>> its validity.
>> Your name
>> Your email
>> Your emailForValidation
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