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Lincolnc
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Email with a anti-spam human question

23 Mar 2010, 17:38

Do you have an email script with human validation to cut down on spam in V2?
 
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Nick
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25 Mar 2010, 12:23

Actually no, spam never was a problem, even on our server with thousands of hits.
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Lincolnc
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25 Mar 2010, 13:34

pain wrote:Actually no, spam never was a problem, even on our server with thousands of hits.
I'm receiving multiple spam emails from my guestbook form on www.cecelinc.com. Can you give me any ideas on how to stop it?
 
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mjau-mjau
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29 Mar 2010, 05:09

The spam does not come from the flash gallery contact form ... But it may come through your html version unless you disable that. I will check with Nick ...
 
Lincolnc
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29 Mar 2010, 22:09

mjau-mjau wrote:The spam does not come from the flash gallery contact form ... But it may come through your html version unless you disable that. I will check with Nick ...
Thanks for checking...in the meanwhile, I will look into disabling the html version of the contact form.

Cheers!
 
Lincolnc
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29 Mar 2010, 22:41

Lincolnc wrote:
mjau-mjau wrote:The spam does not come from the flash gallery contact form ... But it may come through your html version unless you disable that. I will check with Nick ...
Thanks for checking...in the meanwhile, I will look into disabling the html version of the contact form.

Cheers!

Is there a way to disable only the html contact form without disabling the flash one also?
 
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Nick
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30 Mar 2010, 01:49

Hmm, I was trying to say that as far as we see bot spamming though contact form is not a problem (for us at least).
But of course it might be an issue for other people, so i maybe was bit quick to discern that. Could you please describe your spamming case?

Actually we could add captcha for html form then. If you want to just remove it from html page, open imagevue/templates/contactform.html and delete everything inside this file. Or change it to your liking.
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Lincolnc
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31 Mar 2010, 00:32

pain wrote:Hmm, I was trying to say that as far as we see bot spamming though contact form is not a problem (for us at least).
But of course it might be an issue for other people, so i maybe was bit quick to discern that. Could you please describe your spamming case?

Actually we could add captcha for html form then. If you want to just remove it from html page, open imagevue/templates/contactform.html and delete everything inside this file. Or change it to your liking.
Do you have a captcha for your html form? That would be great! As for the spamming I am receiving, it's mostly advertisements. It's definitely coming from the html contacts form, because when I disabled it, all of my spam emails stopped.
 
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DocStein
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

25 Dec 2010, 16:32

Think I have to bring this up again. Since today I got my first spam message vom Imagevue contact form. May be just a single case, but it might also increase.

Is there any solution other than deleting the contact form in HTML?
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

26 Dec 2010, 01:46

DocStein wrote:Think I have to bring this up again. Since today I got my first spam message vom Imagevue contact form. May be just a single case, but it might also increase.

Is there any solution other than deleting the contact form in HTML?
Just to be 100% clear on this., you had your html gallery enabled, right?

I think we will add some span prevention to the HTML contact form for next release ...
 
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Nick
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

26 Dec 2010, 02:36

Gotta say, although this question is in our to-do list, the problem mightn't be that big really. Please inform us if you will get more spam messages.
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Metrik
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

26 Dec 2010, 10:15

I am running Imagevue in HTML only (no flash) and have the contact page active, and I am getting spam now and then. It amounts to approx. 10-20 spam emails per week on a 800 unique visitor / day site.
It would be nice to have CAPTCHA implemented in Imagevue.
 
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DocStein
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

28 Dec 2010, 10:03

mjau-mjau wrote:
DocStein wrote:Think I have to bring this up again. Since today I got my first spam message vom Imagevue contact form. May be just a single case, but it might also increase.

Is there any solution other than deleting the contact form in HTML?
Just to be 100% clear on this., you had your html gallery enabled, right?

I think we will add some span prevention to the HTML contact form for next release ...
Yes I have the HTML gallery enabled!

I got my second spam mail today, so the problem isn't that big for me (yet).
my photo gallery: www.dominiksellung.de
 
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Patrick_D1985
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Re: Email with a anti-spam human question

29 Dec 2010, 07:46

Ok let's give my 2 cents on this matter:

I am not experiencing any form of spam thorugh the imagevue flash gallery.
But still captcha's are always a good idea.

For instance I reworked my cms to simply include a recaptcha module wherever it was needed.
It took a few minutes to implement and well... I hate bragging ... but we have quite some visitors a day and well if I get 10 spam mails a month in total ... well then that is much.

If you ask me inplementing a captcha like recaptcha: http://www.google.com/recaptcha
Is a nice step to secure this a bit more.

But well im not that into flash and actionscript to be honest so I wouldn't know how to correclty implement it.
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