pornographic spam

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  illusionpublishingtopten · Member · Apr 13, 2013 at 6:52 am

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  Over the last couple of days, a lot of pornographic spam has gotten past Akismet (via my form entitled Submit Your Top Ten List) and ends up in my Feedbacks (and is then forwarded to my email account). Is there another way to control such spam? It is quite irritating. Yesterday, I marked several messages as spam, but the spam barrage continues.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 14, 2013 at 3:43 pm

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  Hi there, thanks for the report. I’ve brought this to our developers so they can take a look.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 15, 2013 at 12:42 pm

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  Our developers have had a look at this. They suggested that you consider adding an email field to your contact form, as that tends to solve the issue for most folks.

  So on your Top Ten form, you might want to add a required email field. Be sure to choose the type “email” from the drop-down menu, as you see in this screenshot:

  http://cl.ly/image/3G2r1d3V383G

  Please let me know if you have any other questions.

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  illusionpublishingtopten · Member · Apr 15, 2013 at 5:05 pm

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  Thanks. I updated the page as you suggested. Hopefully, it will solve the problem.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 15, 2013 at 5:18 pm

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  Great – just let me know if you continue to get a lot of form spam slipping through despite the change. Thanks.