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captcha to defeat form spammers let 05-01-2007
Posted by let on May 1, 2007, 5:45 am
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I wish to use a CAPTCHA to defeat form spammers... currently I am
using NMS FormMail Version 3.14c1 ... is there a simple solution for
NMS FormMail perhaps using a CAPTCHA (I know it's been mentioned
before)?

Alternatively there is http://www.freecontactform.com/

I would like to hire someone to customise that freecontactform for me.
It is written in PHP and I do not understand PHP. I need two contact
forms and could pay $40 by paypal to a developer for the minor changes
needed to the form.

Please reply to furriner67@hotmail.com

This is a service which the form developer claims to provide but they
have not answered my emails.

Posted by Tina Peters on May 1, 2007, 9:01 am
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> I wish to use a CAPTCHA to defeat form spammers... currently I am
> using NMS FormMail Version 3.14c1 ... is there a simple solution for
> NMS FormMail perhaps using a CAPTCHA (I know it's been mentioned
> before)?
>
> Alternatively there is http://www.freecontactform.com/
>
> I would like to hire someone to customise that freecontactform for me.
> It is written in PHP and I do not understand PHP. I need two contact
> forms and could pay $40 by paypal to a developer for the minor changes
> needed to the form.
>
> Please reply to furriner67@hotmail.com
>
> This is a service which the form developer claims to provide but they
> have not answered my emails.


I have a really simple form that may work for you here:

www.formmailscript.com

You don't need to know any coding at all, you just copy/paste the form bit
into your webpage.

--Tina



Posted by Leif K-Brooks on May 1, 2007, 10:04 am
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Tina Peters wrote:
> I have a really simple form that may work for you here:
>
> www.formmailscript.com
>
> You don't need to know any coding at all, you just copy/paste the form bit
> into your webpage.

Your fake CAPTCHA is just as useless as the last time you advertised it
here. The security characters are printed _in_the_clear_ in the HTML
source of the page. It would be completely trivial to write a script to
break your 'CAPTCHA', as seen here:
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/msg/8a280131cf52deb1>.

Please stop selling snake oil. Your code isn't worth the hard drive
space used to store it, and it _certainly_ isn't worth $10.

Posted by Tina Peters on May 1, 2007, 10:31 am
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> Tina Peters wrote:
> > I have a really simple form that may work for you here:
> >
> > www.formmailscript.com
> >
> > You don't need to know any coding at all, you just copy/paste the form
bit
> > into your webpage.
>
> Your fake CAPTCHA is just as useless as the last time you advertised it
> here. The security characters are printed _in_the_clear_ in the HTML
> source of the page. It would be completely trivial to write a script to
> break your 'CAPTCHA', as seen here:
> <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/msg/8a280131cf52deb1>.
>
> Please stop selling snake oil. Your code isn't worth the hard drive
> space used to store it, and it _certainly_ isn't worth $10.


and yet, I've been using it for close to a year with ZERO spam issues.

Further, I've sold it close to 60 times with not one complaint. I'm fairly
certain that some of those sales came from people here at alt.html, because
there was a spike in sales last time you went on your tirade about how
worthless it was. Yet, I don't see anyone here complaining about it ;-)

--Tina



Posted by Leif K-Brooks on May 1, 2007, 10:53 am
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Tina Peters wrote:
> and yet, I've been using it for close to a year with ZERO spam issues.

That's because spammers typically go for the very low-hanging fruit and
ignore everything else; it has nothing to do with the merits of your
'CAPTCHA'.

When one of your 'close to 60' customers finally wakes up and realizes
how they've been scammed, I would suggest you give them a link to a real
CAPTCHA, with real security. Luckily, quite a few of them are available
for free; for example, QuickCaptcha:
<http://www.web1marketing.com/resources/tools/quickcaptcha/>.

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