Clever Spam Reduction Technique
I discovered one of our client's company blogs1 tonight because they mentioned they'd just upgraded to EditLive! 6. Reading through the backlog I discovered they've found a clever way to reduce the impact of form spam that I hadn't come across before2 - only accept the submission if it uses multipart/form-encoding not just a plain post. Like most techniques it won't work if everyone does it but it's another interesting way to differentiate.
I do have to wonder why spam bots aren't all just using an embedded browser these days though3 - there seems to be a huge number of ways that they get caught out needlessly.
Anyway, I noticed in their support history there's a feature request I can solve for them easily via our plugin architecture. If someone could throw a squishy toy at me in the morning to add it to the list of LiveWorks! article ideas that' be great4.
1 - note the first cool use of blogs - learning about your customers↩
2 - note the second cool use of blogs - learning interesting stuff that may or may not be useful in the future↩
3 - watch the comments for the third cool use of blogs - I'm sure someone will have additional insight on this↩
4 - note the fourth and most cool use of blogs - using the inherent delay as a reminder mechanism5↩
5 - also, footnotes are cool and I just haven't used them enough lately↩
June 14th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
having taken a look at their history - if it’s the feature I think you’re thinking of - I wish it had come through to support because it’s something that’s been discussed many times and it wouldn’t be too hard to squeeze in as a support fix :)
June 15th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Oh good, you can write the article then. :)
Also, I’ve already been hit with a squishy toy and it’s up on my whiteboard….
June 28th, 2007 at 9:49 am
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