Closed nelsonic closed 1 year ago
I knew I'd captured this problem before: https://github.com/dwyl/contact/issues/6 ⏳ We really need_ to resolve this. 😞 I'm tempted to just disable the contact form on the website in the short-run.
This bugs me multiple times a day. This morning I got spam on my wrist (Apple Watch) at 05:47 while reading ... 😢 It needs to stop. Now. 🙅
Removing the Contact page from the website:
PR: #500 @SimonLab 🙏
No more Contact Form on any of the pages and updated the "App" Page:
Hopefully the SPAM
can stop now. 🤞
Bulk deleting the SPAM
:
1300 messages in 2022. 3.56 / day. Enough! 😡
Sounds like a plan. People can reach us on GH if they need to. We don't need tonbe reached just now and when we do, we can do this right.
FYI I just had a filter which skipped the inbox and went through the folder once every couple of weeks. Also, I don't get email notifications on my phone. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I had notifications on in case legit people contacted us, which they did. 🔔
But ever since the bots discovered our website / form it's been constant SAPAM
. 👎
A filter could have been a good <option>
, but I consider it a bit of a bandaid 🩹
This makes it very clear to spammers/scammers that we aren't open for that crap anymore. 🙅
Just got 12 identical emails:
All the same ... this person "chasing" to be given write-access to on of our GitHub repos:
But we get a lot of spam through our contact-us form ...
@iteles guessing you get these too as they go to the "shared" email address. Do you just ignore them? 💭
This has been an issue for a while https://github.com/dwyl/dwyl-site/issues/310 and has never been fully resolved. But rather than re-opening the old issue I'm opening this focussed one.
The contact form: https://dwyl.com/#contact allows people to easily submit a message:
I'm actually a fan of having this kind of immediately accessible contact form on a website from a UX perspective. 👍 It's zero friction which is great for legitimate contacts. 🎉 But the downside is that it makes
SPAM
very easy too. 😢Todo