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Originally Posted by pagetta
... we get about 3-4 spam submissions a day
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I get 200-300 a day from the form on my blog site! The number of posts you get will increase. One simple way of preventing automatic submissions is to use a captcha on the form. I don't do that because I find them really annoying when I come across them.
Occasionally some of these submissions try and hack into the MySQL database that supports the blog but as long as you take basic precautions to prevent attempts to download code it's not really a problem. There was some discussion on this forum recently about how to prevent the more obvious attacks which is well worth a read.
As to why they do it, I really couldn't say. Nobody ever sees the junk they send out, except the receiver of the form information who is just going to delete them en masse. Presumably there is some benefit to the perps, as there must be to e-mail spammers, but neither have ever persuaded me to click on any of their links.