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Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2009, 12:27 +0530 schrieb Nandeep Mali: |
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> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> > An alternative (which works quiet well with my blog): |
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> > have an empty css-hidden input field in the form and check for it being |
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> > empty when submitting the form. Bots will fill it out since they ignore |
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> > CSS mostly. |
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> > Advantage: it's hidden for all users and for those where it isn't |
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> > (Screen-Readers) you can add a normally hidden description stating this |
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> > is a spam-catching-field intentionally left blank. |
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> Interesting idea. :) But once they get to know about the trick, they |
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> might just bypass it. A blog will not be as lucrative as Gentoo site, |
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> so the bot-makers could go to extra lengths to get their bots working. |
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no, not even the Gentoo site is worth the bot-maintainers time. |
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But instead of returning an error, just say that everything's ok and |
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discard the request silently. |
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Tiziano Müller |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member |
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Areas of responsibility: |
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Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor |
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E-Mail : dev-zero@g.o |
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