Tuesday, January 6, 2009

A Funnelweb World

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn” Alvin Toffler

117 views

Captcha the spammers

Posted by sg On June - 5 - 2008


It was only a matter of time, I guess.

Recently I had started to receive spam emails through the web forms dotted around the new site. Thinking back with horror to the time a few years ago when I was receiving thousands of spam messages a day, I knew I had to do something to stop them.

Then I recalled reading about Captcha apps - they generate those images with either words, numbers or letters in them that you sometimes see on the web say when registering for a site, aimed at stopping spambots in their tracks.

A quick search showed loads of apps that required payment. Then I found a free app called Securimage Captcha. And it was a dream to install. Just a few lines of code in each page and formscript.

Hopefully no more spammers for the moment, at least.

Add A Comment

Enter this code