RE: [IUG] spam from web forms (thanks for all the responses!)

["Minkov, Amy" <aminkov at agnesscott dot edu>]

I just wanted to thank everyone for their very helpful responses.

Amy



Amy Jansen Minkov
Access Services Librarian
Agnes Scott College, McCain Library
Decatur, GA 30030
404.471.6337
aminkov at agnesscott dot edu



-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of Davis, Gayle
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:59 PM
To: 'IUG INNOPAC List'
Subject: RE: [IUG] spam from web forms


I read recently that research shows that 70% of all email is spam.   Pretty
discouraging.

Gayle
Gayle Davis
Library Assistant, System Support
San Jose Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: Gimon, Charles A [mailto:CAGimon at mplib dot org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:43 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: [IUG] spam from web forms

We've seen some of that recently, too. We had a big upswing in August.
My process has been to use our weblogs to identify the addresses and address
ranges that the comment spam is originating from, then blocking those
addresses and ranges on the server. You could also talk to your IT
department about blocking such traffic on the campus firewall. 

In our case, almost all of it appears to be coming from Russia and Korea,
with a little bit from Argentina, Brazil and other countries.
Almost none of it appears to be coming from inside the United States.

After about a week of whack-a-mole (block one site, another would pop up),
the latest surge went away.

We still get a low volume of comment spam, maybe one item every week or two,
but that's a fairly minor annoyance.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Minkov, Amy
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:04 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: [IUG] spam from web forms


I know this isn't particular to Innovative libraries, but does anyone have a
problem in getting spam through web forms?  We have a "Ask a Librarian" form
on our webpage & receive loads of deceptive spam that can't be filtered,
since they show as an "online comment or question" in our Inbox (so we have
to open them to know they're spam).  

 

I just thought I'd check to see if others have this problem, & if so,
how you're handling this problem.    

 

Thanks,

Amy

 

 

Amy Jansen Minkov
Access Services Librarian
Agnes Scott College, McCain Library
Decatur, GA 30030
404.471.6337
aminkov at agnesscott dot edu 

 



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