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Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap

Posted by Hemos on from the stopping-the-bots dept.

Neil Gunton writes "Having been hit by a load of spambots on my community site, I decided to write a Spambot Trap which uses Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, ipchains and Embperl to quickly block spambots that fall into the trap. "

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  1. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by blankmange · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For shame: just because you can, doesn't mean you should.....

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  2. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks just fine in Opera.

  3. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by aozilla · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks fine in Mozilla 0.9.9, too...

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  4. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    looks fine on IE6

  5. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank God! I was beginning to think my pages would look anorexic forever!

  6. I'm sorry, am I a bot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I honestly can't get to:
    http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/
    or to
    http://www.neilgunton.com/
    I'm coming from a hungarian IP, but I don't have any problems with any other page. If somebody's seen the text, could you post it in reply to this?

  7. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think I am getting the hang of this -- if I tell someone they are offtopic, I get modded down if I do not post it AC...

  8. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have problems down here with IE 7.1

    I just got a BSOD....

  9. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1?

    why -1?
    are you assholes?

  10. Re:Not fp, but still a wide page! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excellent work Klerck! I wonder how many months it will take Jamie to fix this time?

  11. Re:removing mailto: a bad solution by Arandir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate the editor in my web browser. No spell check, not good editing ability, and other problems.

    Hmmm, my HTML editor is Emacs, and I don't have these problems at all.

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