being attacked

[bokke]

I have a newsletter signup form on my front page - you insert your
e-mail hit submit and through php it sends it to me and the client in
an e-mail. The problem is - someone is sitting at home going
click-return-click-return-click-return-click.
So I put a javascript making the person at least fake an e-mail address
or it would not go to the next page. The problem is I think the person
has the second page in favourites and every now and then goes there and
hits refresh-refresh-refresh-refresh.
I'm getting about 10 a day - How can I stop it? Help

[Lee]

bokke said:

I have a newsletter signup form on my front page - you insert your
e-mail hit submit and through php it sends it to me and the client in
an e-mail. The problem is - someone is sitting at home going
click-return-click-return-click-return-click.

You don't do anything about this with Javascript on the client.
You fix your php script so that it validates the input before
sending it on.

[Dr Clue]

bokke wrote:

I have a newsletter signup form on my front page - you insert your
e-mail hit submit and through php it sends it to me and the client in
an e-mail. The problem is - someone is sitting at home going
click-return-click-return-click-return-click.
So I put a javascript making the person at least fake an e-mail address
or it would not go to the next page. The problem is I think the person
has the second page in favourites and every now and then goes there and
hits refresh-refresh-refresh-refresh.
I'm getting about 10 a day - How can I stop it? Help

Sorry to here your experiencing the effects of those who need
to get a life. ( seems to be a lot of that going around )

I suppose you could set a cookie with something like
(new Date()-new Date("01/01/1970")) on the first page, and check
for/cancel the cookie on the second page during the submission process.

Then you could simply have the script in the second page
forward them back to the first page. At least it would increase
their workload in acting the fool, while not inflicting
any pain on the legitimate respondents.

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