We run a community site here, and have recently been having someone mass spamming members. We delete the posts and also the account but the spams continue almost like its is a script sending the messages. Can anyone think of any good way to prevent a script from accessing a website email system? The messaging system is behind a login which would normally be enough to prevent a script from accessing. We are thinking currently of adding some kind of image verifaction system to stop it from submitting, but obviously this is going to be an irritation to members.
Any other ideas?
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I've used the presence of Javascript to filter out the robots on some contact forms.
Works well on sites with a non-techie demographic.
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<form name="contact" method="post" action="form2mail.php" onsubmit="document.contact.jstatus.value='true'; return true;">
<input type="hidden" name="jstatus" value="false">
.....
</form>