On 8/16/06, Anisa mystavash@animecards.org wrote:
Yesterday, I got some spam through my site contact form.
Not entirely sure what to do, if anything. Should I do something? I could find the spam ip addresses and ban them, of course. Should I be worried about the site being vulnerable?
:( My danger sense isn't going off, but that could just because I'm really ignorant in these sorts of things.
Different (mostly old) versions of certain contact forms allow spam relays. If you start getting a lot of hits on that form be concerned about it being used to relay spam. Otherwise it was probably just a probe and can be ignored.
There are lots of antispam options (CAPTCHAs, akismet, etc.) but those decrease the value to normal users so I only like to implement them if I am overwhelemed by the spam problem.
Greg