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[nycphp-talk] capricious submission of forms

Urb LeJeune urb at e-government.com
Sun Feb 11 08:15:37 EST 2007


It seem that any form on a web site attracts morons who capricious submit
to these forms. I'm not talking about just hitting the submit button but rather
a fully filled out form.

In some cases, such as a guest book, their action is misguided but
understandable. They want to advertise the sites selling little blue
pills and stock recommendations. However, is some cases they make
no sense at all such as submitting a bogus email address to a
newsletter subscription form.

I've done a few things, like disqualifying the submission of a guest book
entry containg "http://" that have been fairly effective. This doesn't
work for subscription type forms. These are especially annoying because
they eventually require the time to manually unsubscribe these entries.

Does anyone have any suggestions other then captcha.

Thanks

Urb 
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