Cheap Cheesy Remotely Hosted Scripts Minimize Spam.
07 January 2007 11:46 AM | Peeves and Irritations

We all get comment, forum and mail form spam. On some of my sites I have switched to using freebie remotely hosted scripts and it seems to scare off many spammers. For instance I use Bravenet email forms on one site and it has eliminated robot spam and almost eliminated human spam while legit users still can contact me.

On another site I use a Bravenet forum board to allow visitors to discuss some of my content and make suggestions. Again no robot spam and no human spam.

I use Haloscan for blog comments. I think comment spambots get foiled by the JavaScript linking or discouraged by lack of PR juice.

None of the Bravenet scripts are pretty but they seem to keep my work load lower on my content sites.

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