NYCPHP Meetup

[Steve Manes]

Urb LeJeune wrote:
> I've done a few things, like disqualifying the submission of a guest book
> entry containg "http:// <http:///>" that have been fairly effective. 
> This doesn't
> work for subscription type forms. These are especially annoying because
> they eventually require the time to manually unsubscribe these entries.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions other then captcha.

There's Akismet, which was developed to kill comment and trackback spam 
for blogs but which the developer claims is adaptable to other applications:

http://akismet.com/faq/

I have no idea how well it works.  Haven't tried it.