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Combatting a spammer - any suggestions?
Posted 24 Oct 2003 03:46:57
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24 Oct 2003 03:46:57 Martin Finnegan posted:
I have an ASP guestbook on one of my sites that is frequently spammed, I think by some kind of automated software. Any suggestions about how to stop this? Maybe a combination of javascripts might work? Appreciate any suggestions. Thks. Replies
Replied 02 Nov 2003 18:57:16
02 Nov 2003 18:57:16 Janusz Jasinski replied:
Most spam thingies look at the source code and see the e-mail, maybe encoding the e-mail in unicode might help... that's what I've done. For example...
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:joe@bloggs.com">joe@bloggs.com</a> </font id=code></pre id=code>
is the same as
Janusz
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<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><a href="mailto:joe@bloggs.com">joe@bloggs.com</a> </font id=code></pre id=code>
is the same as
Janusz
======================
janusz.monkey-it.co.uk
ASP | VBScript | IIS 5.1 | Windows XP Pro | Linux Redhat 9 | SuSE 9 Pro | Linux FreeBSD 4.9 | PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 | MySQL 4.0 | Apache 2.0.48 | Macromedia Studio w/t Flash 2004 | Microsoft Office Pro 2003 | Mozilla Firebird 0.7 | IE 6 | B.O.R.E.D @ HoMe