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Steven Dobrowski
Steven Dobrowski
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Anti-Spam Measures for the Guestbook  en

Autor: Steven Dobrowski
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Can the Incomedia Team provide more robust measures to combat spam for the guestbook? Perhaps an approach that does not involve the CAPTCHA approach, which spambots have no trouble breaking?

I know there is no single foolproof method to combat spam, but one approach I use on my phpBB forum seems to effectively keep spam bots away. Whereas I used to get hundreds of spam posts, I now get none at all. Here's my approach.

My approach is to use A simple Q and A approach which requires a correct response.

I have a list of tasks such as:

  1. Type the following "check word" backwards (example: fLy 2 = 2 yLf) : ForY 67Ft?
    CORRECT ANSWER is, of course: ?tF6 YroF
  2. Type the following "check word" backwards (example: fLy 2 = 2 yLf) : Professor Beaker+
  3. Type the following "check word" backwards (example: fLy 2 = 2 yLf) : H2SO4+H2O
  4. Type the following "check word" backwards (example: fLy 2 = 2 yLf) : Zygo-Pytho 2

So, can code for a Q and A anti-spambot measure be added as an option to the guestbook?

Steve

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Claudio D.
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Hello Steven,

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Our developers will take your suggestion in consideration when they will search for features for the nexr releases. At the moment I cannot tell you if and when this feature will be implemented.

You will be notified inside WebSite X5 as soon a new update is available and you can find all the informations about the changes made on websitex5.com/changelog/v9

Many thanks!

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