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Mike:
. . . I think we need help with something.
Some spammers are using our "Chicken Wings Contact Form" to send out messages to other people.
Don't worry, you guys aren't going to be affected, that's blocked by all kinds of spam-ware which is costing us a fortune (but hey, we don't want a bad reputation), but it's annoying for us because we don't want to look like we're soliciting Viagra and stuff to other people. It could get us kicked out of search engines like google. . . and that would be bad.
Plus we keep getting all their mail as well and it's filling up our mailbox.

Does anybody know anything about computers or about a good program??

Thanks!

MO:

We had the same problem with a spam relayer a couple of months ago. We tried a number of "solutions" that didn't worked at all. In the end, we decided to remove the gizmo and replaced it with a good-old email address. We're still trying to fetch for a suitable program. If your server is running on Linux or similar, you should try this one:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

 ???

Cheers!

Stef:
Yeah! *%&$ing spammers!!!  >:( >:( It's amazing how much time we already spent on just trying to avoid being abused. Thanks for the link MO. I think I've already tried that script, but I couldn't customize it.

If anybody who knows about programming reads this, please help us:

What we tried is to ask people to copy a random number "$rnd", that is then called $rndcheck compared to $rnd in the form.php file. But it seems they found a way to evade this by somehow being able to enter $rnd and $rndcheck in the form.php, usually using an email address. Now I've blocked it by making sure that $rnd is no longer than 5 characters. Let's see if that works. I have the feeling that some other spammer lowlife will crack that too sooner or later...

Stef:
Oh, one thing I just wanted to emphasize again:

If you write us an email, subscribe to our newsletter or write us through our contact form, your email address is perfectly safe! We're protected against email address harvesting. The thing happening to us is that somebody uses our contact form as an "open relay" and spams other third parties making it appear that the spam comes from an email account of our server.

Sleek-Jet:
I've asked around a little, if I hear anything usefull, I'll pass it along to you guys.  ;D

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