How can I protect forms in MS Expression Web?

[alastair]

I have two forms for prospective students to fill out and I'm being deluged
with spam bots. What is the best way to prevent this? Thanks.
Here are the forms:
http://saxlessons.com/privatelessonform.htm
http://saxlessons.com/onlinelessonform.htm

Alastair Ingram
www.saxlessons.com

 

[Ian Haynes]

I have two forms for prospective students to fill out and I'm being deluged

with spam bots. What is the best way to prevent this? Thanks.
Here are the forms:
http://saxlessons.com/privatelessonform.htm
http://saxlessons.com/onlinelessonform.htm

You need some sort of validation mechanism. Captchas or one option (the
fuzzy image you have from which you enter the text it displays). Although to
be fully effective these need to rotate, even a static one can work.

See http://www.captcha.net/

Another option is some self evident question that has to be answered, with a
number of check box options. 'What color is a blue parrot?' With red, green
and blue check boxes. These are difficult for spam bots to deal with. For
added security give the checkboxes (or whatever you use) ID's something
other the red, green and blue.

With the Captcha or question you test for the correct answer before
continuing to process the form.

Either of these approaches will stop or vastly reduce the amount of spam you
receive.

HTH

 

[Ronx]

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/anti-spam/ for some examples.
Note that for these to work effectively you need server-side scripting
(asp, asp.NET, PHP etc) to process the form. Using FrontPage
extensions to process the form requires the validation is done using
JavaScript in the browser, and spammers will simply avoid the validation
by turning JavaScript off.

 

[.._..]

What is this, some sort of stupid way to get more traffic to your domain
parking spam web sites?

There's nothing but crappy typo-squatter links on both of those pages.

 

[alastair]

What is this, some sort of stupid way to get more traffic to your domain
parking spam web sites?

There's nothing but crappy typo-squatter links on both of those pages.

My question was legitimate. I have no idea what you are referring to. So,
f*ck off and thanks for nothing.

 

[alastair]

You need some sort of validation mechanism. Captchas or one option (the
fuzzy image you have from which you enter the text it displays). Although
to be fully effective these need to rotate, even a static one can work.

See http://www.captcha.net/

Another option is some self evident question that has to be answered, with
a number of check box options. 'What color is a blue parrot?' With red,
green and blue check boxes. These are difficult for spam bots to deal
with. For added security give the checkboxes (or whatever you use) ID's
something other the red, green and blue.

With the Captcha or question you test for the correct answer before
continuing to process the form.

Either of these approaches will stop or vastly reduce the amount of spam
you receive.

HTH

Thank you.

 

[alastair]

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/anti-spam/ for some examples.
Note that for these to work effectively you need server-side scripting
(asp, asp.NET, PHP etc) to process the form. Using FrontPage extensions
to process the form requires the validation is done using JavaScript in
the browser, and spammers will simply avoid the validation by turning
JavaScript off.

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Thank you.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

In the future, you should post your EW questions in the EW newsgroup ;-)

 

[Andrew Murray]

Well, what do you see if you open either of those two links you
posted?

I see:

"404 Error - Not Found
The resource you have requested could not be found on the server.
There are many possible reasons for this. yada, yada, yada..."

and a page that looks strangely similar to what a "parked" domain
would display, with links to http://searchportal.information.com/.

Looks like spamming to me and probably most other knowledgeable folks.


BTW, I doubt you'll will receive much future help when you tell people
here to fu*k off so quickly and easily.

DJ

I found the correct links for the two forms:
http://saxlessons.com/Lesson_Forms/onlinelessonform.htm and
(that's "Lesson_Form" with the
underscore).http://saxlessons.com/Lesson_Forms/privatelessonform.htm

The folder "Lesson_Form" was missing from the original poster's links. The
above work.

 

[IdaSpode]

My question was legitimate. I have no idea what you are referring to. So,
f*ck off and thanks for nothing.

Well, what do you see if you open either of those two links you
posted?

I see:

"404 Error - Not Found
The resource you have requested could not be found on the server.
There are many possible reasons for this. yada, yada, yada..."

and a page that looks strangely similar to what a "parked" domain
would display, with links to http://searchportal.information.com/.

Looks like spamming to me and probably most other knowledgeable folks.


BTW, I doubt you'll will receive much future help when you tell people
here to fu*k off so quickly and easily.

DJ

 

[alastair]

In the future, you should post your EW questions in the EW newsgroup ;-)
--
Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
"You're a daisy if you do!"
----
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
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Thank you.

Thanks, I didn't know there was an EW newsgroup.
As far as the 404 errors, I put those links in another folder after I posted
here. Anytime someone is so rude to me, they will get a fitting response.
That reply was uncalled for, accusatory and cowardly anonymous.

 

[.._..]

So, free host puts up spam pages upon 404. OP link was simply wrong.

You get what you pay for I guess.

 

[IdaSpode]

Apparently, slick television ads with large breasted blonde women do
quite well at selling crappy web hosting...

DJ