> than you get a 400.
When I did this, the spammers got more creative trying other ways to get through.
Now I return a 200, and the response looks identical to a successful signup.
The only difference is nothing actually happened on the backend.
When I did this, the spammers got more creative trying other ways to get through.
Now I return a 200, and the response looks identical to a successful signup.
The only difference is nothing actually happened on the backend.
If there was something of value (besides excellent software) behind the signup form maybe we would need different strategies.
I only do it for things which are clearly not valid users.
I gave them an e-mail address that contained a "+". Apparently MondialRelay silently dropped their requests. They thought they had sent me multiple e-mails. I received none.
I hate that kind of silent failure mode.