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On 10/24/2011 01:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've had some luck making "<input name='email'>" my
invisibible-to-normal-users honeypot, and using "<input name='value_1">
(etc.) as actual form inputs.


Thomas Dowling
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