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Ken Irwin wrote: > Some of our online forms (contact, archives request, etc.) have been > getting a bunch of spam lately. I have heretofore avoided using any > of those obnoxious Captcha things and would rather not start now. (I > personally loathe them and they keep getting harder, which tells me > that the spambots are probably better at them than we are...) You are a hero and I wish there were more like you. I am getting bored with being locked out of more and more websites. > Does anyone have some good/easy/free/less-stressful spam-inhibiting ideas? blogspam.net (a FOSS Akismet-like service), manually-maintained blocklists, trying to design things so that the return on investment for spammers is fairly low, rate limiting and if you really are stuck, textcaptcha.com has more ideas and a textual captcha service. I've been using a combination of those for years and never had much of a spam problem for long. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/