Netobjects SPAM-Free?

[RayC]

I stumbled across this link, which appears to be on an old section of the
NetObjects website.

http://www.netobjects.com/workbench/spamfree.html

Does anyone have a clue whether this would work in NOF 10?

Thanks.

RayC

[Anton Strauss]

use this instead, takes only a simple ctrl+t to implement
http://www.web1marketing.com/resourc...il-encoder.htm

--


Anton Strauss
www.videoproductions.com.au



"RayC" <campbell.reXspamX@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:f3p6p2$8sa2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> I stumbled across this link, which appears to be on an old section of the
> NetObjects website.
>
> http://www.netobjects.com/workbench/spamfree.html
>
> Does anyone have a clue whether this would work in NOF 10?
>
> Thanks.
>
> RayC
>
>

[LBA]

I prefer this http://www.bitmotion.com/products/superspamfree.asp much
better. It's a component which, when installed, automatically
obfuscates all email addresses on all sites, rather than having to do
them one by one. Set it and forget it.

Laurence


RayC wrote:
> I stumbled across this link, which appears to be on an old section of the
> NetObjects website.
>
> http://www.netobjects.com/workbench/spamfree.html
>
> Does anyone have a clue whether this would work in NOF 10?
>
> Thanks.
>
> RayC
>
>

[Peter Eisenburger]

LBA wrote:
> I prefer this http://www.bitmotion.com/products/superspamfree.asp much
> better. It's a component which, when installed, automatically
> obfuscates all email addresses on all sites, rather than having to do
> them one by one. Set it and forget it.

But control whether the component is set to be published in Publish view
every now and then. - Though I am not sure whether spam bots can't
read the code. Isn't it set in Unicode?

Peter

>
> Laurence
>
>
> RayC wrote:
>> I stumbled across this link, which appears to be on an old section of
>> the NetObjects website.
>>
>> http://www.netobjects.com/workbench/spamfree.html
>>
>> Does anyone have a clue whether this would work in NOF 10?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> RayC
>>

[LBA]

I thought they were ASCII numbers or something like that... and yes,
I've always presumed that it would be pretty easy bot bots to interpret
that. It surprises me that email obfuscators still claim to be
effective... but they do claim that. In reality, the best thing is not
to put any email addresses on a web site... and use forms instead.

Laurence

Peter Eisenburger wrote:
> LBA wrote:
>> I prefer this http://www.bitmotion.com/products/superspamfree.asp much
>> better. It's a component which, when installed, automatically
>> obfuscates all email addresses on all sites, rather than having to do
>> them one by one. Set it and forget it.
>
> But control whether the component is set to be published in Publish view
> every now and then. - Though I am not sure whether spam bots can't read
> the code. Isn't it set in Unicode?
>
> Peter
>
>>
>> Laurence
>>
>>
>> RayC wrote:
>>> I stumbled across this link, which appears to be on an old section of
>>> the NetObjects website.
>>>
>>> http://www.netobjects.com/workbench/spamfree.html
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a clue whether this would work in NOF 10?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> RayC
>>>

[Karl Strieby]

LBA wrote:
> I thought they were ASCII numbers or something like that... and yes,
> I've always presumed that it would be pretty easy bot bots to interpret
> that. It surprises me that email obfuscators still claim to be
> effective... but they do claim that. In reality, the best thing is not
> to put any email addresses on a web site... and use forms instead.
>
> Laurence

Hi Laurence,

Yes, the Bitmotion SpamFree component (which still works fine under NOF
10 as long as you install it on NOF 7 and manually copy it to the NOF 10
...\components folder) obfuscates all e-mail addresses in the site by
substituting ANSI codes for the characters in the address itself and the
linked "mailto:" address.

And you're right, that's not enough anti-spam protection these days...

The bad news is that forms can easily be spammed too. My site`s original
"contact us" form was getting hit by a trickle that grew to more than
100 spams a month when I finally got fed up and redesigned the form.

I redesigned the form to allow very limited free-form text input,
display a warning and the would-be-sender's IP address (which I also
enclose in the form`s CFMail output). Since then, I haven't had a single
spam from it.

I also haven't had a single nibble from a maybe web dev customer from it
either, but that's obviously a different problem :-(.

--
Cheers,
Karl

http://www.k-c-p.com/

[LBA]

Karl Strieby wrote:
> I redesigned the form to allow very limited free-form text input,
> display a warning and the would-be-sender's IP address (which I also
> enclose in the form`s CFMail output).

Karl, yes... form spam is becoming more and more of a problem. Could
you explain your solution a little further? I've played with Captcha
but I've gotten so sick of that... wish there was a better way. Damn
spammers.

Laurence

..
I don't allow any html to be processed (i.e. throw an error if < is present).

<cfif '#Form.description#' CONTAINS "<">
<h5">HTML is not allowed <a href="javascript:history.back()">re-try</a>.</h5>
<cfabort>
</cfif>

Spamers want to send you a URL so this stops a lot of BS emails

Mike


LBA said:

| Karl Strieby wrote:
|| I redesigned the form to allow very limited free-form text input,
|| display a warning and the would-be-sender's IP address (which I
|| also enclose in the form`s CFMail output).
|
| Karl, yes... form spam is becoming more and more of a problem.
| Could you explain your solution a little further? I've played with
| Captcha but I've gotten so sick of that... wish there was a better
| way. Damn spammers.
|
| Laurence

[LBA]

Interesting. I wonder if I can modify fommailer.php to do that or if I
need to write my own form mail script. I'll give the former a try and
see if that works.

Laurence


gotFusion.com wrote:
> .
> I don't allow any html to be processed (i.e. throw an error if < is present).
>
> <cfif '#Form.description#' CONTAINS "<">
> <h5">HTML is not allowed <a href="javascript:history.back()">re-try</a>.</h5>
> <cfabort>
> </cfif>
>
> Spamers want to send you a URL so this stops a lot of BS emails
>
> Mike
>
>
> LBA said:
>
> | Karl Strieby wrote:
> || I redesigned the form to allow very limited free-form text input,
> || display a warning and the would-be-sender's IP address (which I
> || also enclose in the form`s CFMail output).
> |
> | Karl, yes... form spam is becoming more and more of a problem.
> | Could you explain your solution a little further? I've played with
> | Captcha but I've gotten so sick of that... wish there was a better
> | way. Damn spammers.
> |
> | Laurence
>
>

[Anton Strauss]

if you are using formmailer.php then I doubt you get spammed since the email
address is not visible in the form html page and is only in the script which
is not visible to the spammer

--


Anton Strauss
www.videoproductions.com.au



"LBA" <webdesigns@no2spamabramsnet.com> wrote in message
news:f3qn8g$ct77@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Interesting. I wonder if I can modify fommailer.php to do that or if I
> need to write my own form mail script. I'll give the former a try and
> see if that works.
>
> Laurence
>
>
> gotFusion.com wrote:
> > .
> > I don't allow any html to be processed (i.e. throw an error if < is
present).
> >
> > <cfif '#Form.description#' CONTAINS "<">
> > <h5">HTML is not allowed <a
href="javascript:history.back()">re-try</a>.</h5>
> > <cfabort>
> > </cfif>
> >
> > Spamers want to send you a URL so this stops a lot of BS emails
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > LBA said:
> >
> > | Karl Strieby wrote:
> > || I redesigned the form to allow very limited free-form text input,
> > || display a warning and the would-be-sender's IP address (which I
> > || also enclose in the form`s CFMail output).
> > |
> > | Karl, yes... form spam is becoming more and more of a problem.
> > | Could you explain your solution a little further? I've played with
> > | Captcha but I've gotten so sick of that... wish there was a better
> > | way. Damn spammers.
> > |
> > | Laurence
> >
> >