Bravenet & the Spammers
This is a very interesting post ~ or at least I think so!
How many of you have a Guestbook on your site? How many of you have been hit by the SPAM posts? Doesn't this just drive you insane?
Now I have had a Guestbook for years and I have never been hit by SPAM ~ well up until a few days ago. Now I am lucky in the fact that I use Bravenet. So no messages will appear until I approve them. But it is still annoying getting message after message telling you someone has signed your book and the message needs reviewing only to find SPAM!
Now when this started happening I was getting about 20 posts in a 24 hour period. What could I do?
Well SPAMMERS use fake IP addresses so you cannot do anything. But most SPAM isn't written by hand by done via a auto post type thing ~ so a PC somewhere is doing it automatically. Now if you peek at a spam message you will see the comment box is written in HTML. Now Bravenet gives you the ability of turning off HTML enteries. So that would stop it.
But then again I was asked to switch it on a few months ago as people like to leave gifts and calling cards in your Guestbook.
That is where Bravenet really stands out! They have started 'Word Verification'. If you switch this on it mean that anyone who posts has to copy a smnall code into the box ~ just to verify tht they are a person and not a computer somewhere spamming yourbook.
Voila! No more SPAM for MY Guestbook!
And best of all? All of this is FREE!
So if you have a Guestbook I would recommend you switch over to Bravenet NOW! And turn on the Word Verification!
