Hi all
For what it's worth - I found putting a "contact me form" on my
website (weldsmith.co.uk) surprisingly straightforward.
Regards,
Rich Smith
On 7/4/2023 2:18 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
Hi all
For what it's worth - I found putting a "contact me form" on my
website (weldsmith.co.uk) surprisingly straightforward.
I might suggest adding some captcha or spam defeat features to your
contact form. (I haven't looked. Maybe you have.) There are
companies that hunt down contact forms and use them to spam the web
site inbox.
I didn't go through all your code, but if you are using the default
host side sendmail script there are ways to bypass the contact form
and abuse your hosts sendmail program.
I run a simple spam defeat question AND a captcha system on my two web contact forms and I still get some spam routed through them.
Regards,
Rich Smith
--
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Proffessional Hack, Hobbyist, Wannabe, Shade Tree, Button Pushing, Not
a real machinist
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On 7/4/2023 2:18 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
Hi all
For what it's worth - I found putting a "contact me form" on my
website (weldsmith.co.uk) surprisingly straightforward.
I might suggest adding some captcha or spam defeat features to your
contact form. (I haven't looked. Maybe you have.) There are
companies that hunt down contact forms and use them to spam the web
site inbox.
I didn't go through all your code, but if you are using the default
host side sendmail script there are ways to bypass the contact form
and abuse your hosts sendmail program.
I run a simple spam defeat question AND a captcha system on my two web contact forms and I still get some spam routed through them.
Regards,
Rich Smith
--
Bob La Londe
Proffessional Hack, Hobbyist, Wannabe, Shade Tree, Button Pushing, Not
a real machinist
Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> writes:
On 7/4/2023 2:18 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
Hi all
For what it's worth - I found putting a "contact me form" on my
website (weldsmith.co.uk) surprisingly straightforward.
I might suggest adding some captcha or spam defeat features to your
contact form. (I haven't looked. Maybe you have.) There are
companies that hunt down contact forms and use them to spam the web
site inbox.
I didn't go through all your code, but if you are using the default
host side sendmail script there are ways to bypass the contact form
and abuse your hosts sendmail program.
I run a simple spam defeat question AND a captcha system on my two web
contact forms and I still get some spam routed through them.
Regards,
Rich Smith
--
Bob La Londe
Proffessional Hack, Hobbyist, Wannabe, Shade Tree, Button Pushing, Not
a real machinist
Hello again Bob, everyone
I’ve devised and incorporated a CAPTCHA
(Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) into my Contact Form.
To be seen at
http://weldsmith.co.uk/contactform/contact.html
Happy days!
I don't mind getting some messages if/while you test the script.
Alternatively, I've created http://weldsmith.co.uk/contactformtest/contact.html
where everything else is identical but I've
* commented-out the one line which actually sends the message which
has been assembled (ie. it doesn't send messages / use resources)
* switched to a text-echo where the message would have sent (not HTML
"Succesfully send" page)
So you can try time-and-again to make the thing "crap-out" no problem
at all... :-)
Best wishes,
Rich Smith
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:ly1qhk6rzm.fsf@void.com...
I've replaced it with a captcha based on a nursery rhyme, where the
answer sought is there to be recognised.
Seen at
http://weldsmith.co.uk/contactform/contact.html
Best wishes
------------------------
I didn't remember the rhyme and had to Google it, which an AI could do too.
It's funny, I once memorized The Raven
Hopefully my test messages reached you well, however I disagree with
your answer. Yes, Wikipedia (and other sources) draw an inference
because the rhyme is associated with a sometimes used phrase in English language cultures, but there is not any indication of that actual state
in the original text. There are two alternatively much more likely
possible answers. I did detail also why either of those possibilities
might also be equally incorrect. Unless one was there at the time there
is no certainty that there is any actual correct answer. Just degrees
of likelihood.
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:lywmzcekr2.fsf@void.com...
I’ve devised and incorporated a CAPTCHA
(Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
Apart)
into my Contact Form.
------------------------------
I entered "stabbing" but it told me to piss off.
Piss...
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I suspect many programmers have resisted the strong temptation to add sarcastic responses for some user inputs. For wiseguys who responded to
"Hit any key to continue" with Ctrl, Shift or Alt I redefined black as several bright colors in rapid succession to make the screen seem to
explode like fireworks. It did continue though.
On one machine I worked on the troubleshooting tree ended by giving the software manager's home phone number. He didn't know and was NOT happy
about it.
The VT100 control set allowed other users to read and write to your
screen, so a gag was to search randomly for a character and then slowly
slide it to the bottom, with the message that your terminal was getting
tired and needed a rest. We learned a lot about programming by devising
these stunts even if they weren't used.
I suspect many programmers have resisted the strong temptation to add sarcastic responses for some user inputs. For wiseguys who responded
to "Hit any key to continue" with Ctrl, Shift or Alt I redefined black
as several bright colors in rapid succession to make the screen seem
to explode like fireworks. It did continue though.
On one machine I worked on the troubleshooting tree ended by giving
the software manager's home phone number. He didn't know and was NOT
happy about it.
The VT100 control set allowed other users to read and write to your
screen, so a gag was to search randomly for a character and then
slowly slide it to the bottom, with the message that your terminal was getting tired and needed a rest. We learned a lot about programming by devising these stunts even if they weren't used.
I suspect many programmers have resisted the strong temptation to add sarcastic responses for some user inputs. For wiseguys who responded
to "Hit any key to continue" with Ctrl, Shift or Alt I redefined black
as several bright colors in rapid succession to make the screen seem
to explode like fireworks. It did continue though.
"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:
I suspect many programmers have resisted the strong temptation to add
sarcastic responses for some user inputs. For wiseguys who responded
to "Hit any key to continue" with Ctrl, Shift or Alt I redefined black
as several bright colors in rapid succession to make the screen seem
to explode like fireworks. It did continue though.
On one machine I worked on the troubleshooting tree ended by giving
the software manager's home phone number. He didn't know and was NOT
happy about it.
The VT100 control set allowed other users to read and write to your
screen, so a gag was to search randomly for a character and then
slowly slide it to the bottom, with the message that your terminal was
getting tired and needed a rest. We learned a lot about programming by
devising these stunts even if they weren't used.
Hi Jim, everyone
That "mad moment" cost me a couple of hours.
I thought of the nursery rhyme captcha but having just cycled home
from Portreath in the sunset on the old mineral tramway, I had that "devilment" moment.
It is a "sign of the times" and I am taking it as part of the
current experience.
My friend (female) came around and laughed when she saw how seriously
I had taken it that I might have caused offence.
Thanks for winding me up and "getting the penny to drop" :-)
Best wishes,
Rich S
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:ly5y6un6ji.fsf@void.com...
...having just cycled home
from Portreath in the sunset on the old mineral tramway,
---------------------
Do you know when tin mining in that area began? I was wondering to
what extent it might have enabled the advance into the Bronze Age.
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:ly5y6un6ji.fsf@void.com...
"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:
I suspect many programmers have resisted the strong temptation to add
sarcastic responses for some user inputs. For wiseguys who responded
to "Hit any key to continue" with Ctrl, Shift or Alt I redefined black
as several bright colors in rapid succession to make the screen seem
to explode like fireworks. It did continue though.
Hi Jim, everyone
That "mad moment" cost me a couple of hours.
I thought of the nursery rhyme captcha but having just cycled home
from Portreath in the sunset on the old mineral tramway, I had that "devilment" moment.
It is a "sign of the times" and I am taking it as part of the
current experience.
My friend (female) came around and laughed when she saw how seriously
I had taken it that I might have caused offence.
Thanks for winding me up and "getting the penny to drop" :-)
Best wishes,
Rich S
--------------------
Hey, I was an Army sergeant. You know things are serious when people
DON'T wise off.
This displays some of the everyday attitude I expect from the British: https://www.amazon.com/Bravo-Two-Zero-Harrowing-Special/dp/0440218802
Opening it randomly:
"We knew many of the spooks by name, having worked with them in the UK. 'Morning, slime', I called out to a familiar face.
I got a mouthed word and a jerk of the wrist in return."
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:ly5y6un6ji.fsf@void.com...
...having just cycled home
from Portreath in the sunset on the old mineral tramway,
---------------------
Do you know when tin mining in that area began? I was wondering to
what extent it might have enabled the advance into the Bronze Age.
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:lyfs5wn22y.fsf@void.com...
"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:ly5y6un6ji.fsf@void.com...
...having just cycled home
from Portreath in the sunset on the old mineral tramway,
---------------------
Do you know when tin mining in that area began? I was wondering to
what extent it might have enabled the advance into the Bronze Age.
It is thought that getting tin in Britain is almost as old as all
recounting of "civilisation".
I think you are a much better historian than me.
Cornish tin has been found across Europe and the Middle East which is
proven by scientific measurements (? which? Isotopes? Impurities?) to
be from Cornwall.
It is speculated that Jesus (yes that poor sod whose parents came up
with that cock-and-bull story to cover-up that they had been shagging
behind the bicycle shed) might have come to The West Country of
England for tin, given his Uncle had a ship. No evidence of, but a plausibility. Apparently the Celtic Cornish were known to be
cosmopolitan in their outlook and traders were welcomed.
Own observation - there seem to be a disproportion of caves which just
so happen to align with a mineral lode. Notably by the sea shore.
At one cove, if you swim out to it and go into this cave, their are
copper stains at the back. Towanroath Vugga (seemingly a cave) - seen
on at least one YouTube video - which is accessed from the beach at
low tide far beneath the iconic Towanroath engine-house, aligns with a
lode.
These could have been mined in historic times say 2thousand or
3thousand years ago, and nature has smoothed them over so you cannot
tell whether they are a mine or a cave...
By the way, yesterday walked along the coastal path to a clear view of
Cligga Head. Where green - copper - can be seen leaking from the
cliff-face. Bit of a hint of metalliferous mineralisation...
Suggestion of ancient (Roman and before) era mining at Cligga Head.
Something better commented...
During "the middle ages" tin was obtained by "streaming" - guessing
where the dense tin ore freed by erosion in geological time had
accumulated and going gathering it from not-very-deep trenches.
Mining to 1850's concentrated on copper.
Price of copper falling on other reserves found elsewhere in the
World, the Cornish miners knew there was tin deeper-down and went for
that, with the copper mines already being deep down the big lodes.
So the copper mining industry became what is now thought of - the
Cornish tin miners.
Okay, confession - I am not much of a geologist.
I need to make amends.
If anyone knows of a "geology quickly explained to scientists in other fields" introduction let me know.
----------------------
Aha!, both copper and tin in one place, easy to combine into bronze accidentally. Maybe your (or my Welsh) ancestors first brought us out
of the Stone Age.
Those who study ancient history rarely appear to have any practical
hands-on knowledge of the basic crafts and trades and make guesses I
can't agree with. The oldest books I have by people who have actually
done what they wrote about are from the last thousand years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Presbyter
A PBS show on King Arthur and Tintagel mentioned that the town appears
to have been a major Roman era trading port. I was disappointed to
learn that the ruined castle was an ancient fake tourist attraction.
"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message news:u8e39m$243s9$1@dont-email.me...
https://www.businessinsider.com/slang-terms-canada-2018-4
https://blog.lingoda.com/en/american-words-british-dont-understand/
"Richard Smith" wrote in message news:lya5w33j1d.fsf@void.com...
They were going to re-house him
but he said it wasn't necessary - explained he'd been in Burma and
seen it all.
American servicement returning from Vietnam - often struggled to
assimilate back into society. I've met at least one, working in the
US.
So - how / why / what the difference?
---------------------
In the memoirs I've read noncombatants were either absent or not
hostile, the casualties were armed troops. Perhaps the reason for the difference is that we tried to impose Peace on civilian populations
that sought Justice (revenge) instead.
Like Ulster and Palestine.
An illustrative tale is a GI arriving in Vietnam and being driven to
his new unit in a Jeep, accompanied by a guard with a shotgun. He
noticed a young couple on a motorbike pull up beside the Jeep,
whereupon the guard blew the guy's head off and they swerved into the
ditch.
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He was frozen in horror until the girl's grenade exploded and he
realized why.
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