Eamon Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Hey, just wondering what "disabled due to misuse" is referring to when this is displayed under someone's email address in the gallery section - trying to contact someone in particular, but quite a few seem to have this... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Msamir Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 And by the way submitting images to the gallery doesnt work now ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamon Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiuh Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 i was wondering about that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Several weeks ago some idiot wrote a robot to use that form on every single person in our database to spam them. I had to take it offline to prevent them from spamming everyone. Fourtunately I caught it before too long. Until I modify the submissions forms to be more secure and safe from spammers you will not be able to contact people through the gallery. If I knew who did it I'd invite all of you to send them a few hundred emails each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 If I knew who did it I'd invite all of you to send them a few hundred emails each. Id be up for that Jeff... hunt them down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Just an idea. So I've used facebook and the way they get around it is to make the email an image of the text so it's not "crawlable" or "highlightable." They only inconvience is that if someone does indeed want to email that person they cannon copy/past the email address and just have to write it down. I don't know what all this involves, but it might be worth looking into. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Just an idea. So I've used facebook and the way they get around it is to make the email an image of the text so it's not "crawlable" or "highlightable." They only inconvience is that if someone does indeed want to email that person they cannon copy/past the email address and just have to write it down. I don't know what all this involves, but it might be worth looking into. Michael The emails were not visible before, you could only use a submission form that submitted to the user. The actual email was always hidden, but the robot they wrote took advantage of the form. I can get around this with CAPTCHA, but have not had time to deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianzajac Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 The emails were not visible before, you could only use a submission form that submitted to the user. The actual email was always hidden, but the robot they wrote took advantage of the form. I can get around this with CAPTCHA, but have not had time to deal with it. Jeff, I've got a few sites that get nailed with spam. The problem with some of the CAPTCHA programs is that you have to add components (dll's and other code that server companies do not like to add) to make them work. After a good amount of research, I found a free CAPTCHA system that has worked well for over a year. You can find it at http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/sample_scripts/web_wiz_CAPTCHA.asp. It runs off of ASP instead (which all Windows servers allow). Hope that helps you out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Jeff, I've got a few sites that get nailed with spam. The problem with some of the CAPTCHA programs is that you have to add components (dll's and other code that server companies do not like to add) to make them work. After a good amount of research, I found a free CAPTCHA system that has worked well for over a year. You can find it at http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/sample_scripts/web_wiz_CAPTCHA.asp. It runs off of ASP instead (which all Windows servers allow). Hope that helps you out... Sweet thanks Brian. DLLs are not so much of an issue as I have my own dedicated server and will be moving to two dedicated servers soon, but free is always a good thing. Did not know you were an ASP guy. We should chat offline some day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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