Lately, “form spam” has been the bane of my existence. Anyone who runs more than one or two Web sites has probably had the experience of dealing with what can amount to hundreds of junk messages a day coming through different types of Web-based contact forms. “Report a bug,” “Contact the Web team,” “Write a letter to the Editor,” etc. — they’re all targets for malicious spam bots and their ilk.
Recently I decided to double my previous efforts to find some solutions to Web-based form abuse.
Many of the organizations that I’m working with rely on a number of different systems to deliver content to the Web, which makes it more challenging to find a one-size-fits-all solution. That said, they all use a LAMP stack and several of them are using the Drupal content-management system in some capacity, e.g., to provide some front-end interactivity, user management, etc. So, the real opportunity was to find something that either played nice with Drupal, or was built in PHP/Perl/Python so that it could be integrated with Drupal where necessary. read more »
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