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I can say from experience that that won't help - spambots even hit lone forms with nondescript names. - Dave Mayo On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 10/24/2011 1:15 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > >> trying to design things so that the return on investment >> for spammers is fairly low, >> > > > In my experience, this is irrelevant. I have spammers spamming my "ask a > librarian a question" link, which _only_ results in email to a librarian's > inbox (several of them actually). It never possibly results in anything the > spammer/spambot submits in that link winding up on the public web. It's not > even _possible_ for it to do so. The spammer has absolutely _nothing_ to > gain from sending spam through my "ask a librarian a question" form. It > still gets planty of spambots. They are not targetting things that might > actually do them any good, it's just an all-out assault on any web forms at > all, apparently. > > Or perhaps the fact that my web form has a 'name' and 'email' form makes > the spambots decide it just _must_ be a blog comment form. I suppose taking > away the 'name' and 'email' labels might help, although it might mess up our > workflow too. Hmm, now I'm thinking about just telling them to include their > email in one big comment box, and having my own software regex out things > that look like email to fill out the field in our internal system. >