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.