[TYPO3-UG Australia] guest book hammered by spam

[Christian Lerrahn]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:56:58 +1100 (EST)
"Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt.net.au> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, March 6, 2006 2:38 pm, Paul Sanderson wrote:
> > Voytek Eymont wrote:
> 
> >> as of few weeks ago, the guest book is getting hammered (well, several
> >> new entries every week) with crap and spam, presumedly from some script
> >> any suggestions ?
> 
> > You could possibly add a Captcha to your guestbook sign-on and disallow
> > all unregistered posters:
> >
> > http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/captcha
> > /current/view/1/1/
> >
> >
> > You will either need to ask the original extension developer to add the
> > Caotcha option to the extension, or get one of the many talented TYPO3
> > developers on this list to do that for you.
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> problem is, this a guest book for 'unknown' users, I can not restrict it
> 
> this is the type of stuff that I started getting as of a few weeks ago, I
> presume it coming from some script ?:

But why not just add captcha to the guestbook form itself? Wouldn't that
make sense?

Christian

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