The Random Ramblings of a Sysadmin

Or maybe not, but at least the end of contact forms with CC-options and no captcha or login has finally arrived. Over the last few weeks I've seen a remarkable increase in the bot-driven abuse of contact-forms to send spam, and have spent inordinate amounts of time tracking down perpetrators and helping clients fix their sites. We've managed to plug most, if not all, holes in client sites, but it serves to illustrate the ever increasing ingenuity of the spamming community. Working with an anti-spam filtering mailserver every day also gives a bit of insight into the methods used by spammers, and it truly is an uphill battle for those of us trying to relieve end users of the hassle of reading and deleting spam. For the moment, though, we're the ones doing comparatively better.