Title: ISP Problem with Spam
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# ISP Problem with Spam

 *  [inquire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inquire/)
 * (@inquire)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isp-problem-with-spam/)
 * I received the following from my ISP.
 * We have disabled the comment forms on your site.
 * It is not a matter of requiring logins to allow for posting comments, it is a
   matter that I see thousands (>12000 at one time) of emails sourced from your 
   POST comment form.
 * This nice, shiny “comment post” form is what botnets look for to abuse
    server
   resources regardless of the ability to actually post their spam, though if they
   are successful, which many are, then they spread their spam links to yet another
   unsuspecting blog host.
 * For any form on your website where there is a submit button, you should have 
   some method of filtering out the non-human element on the internet. This would
   also include the wordpress login page as it is one of the more frequent targets.
 * ———
 * What is the solution using WordPress??

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isp-problem-with-spam/#post-4719977)
 * Have a read please:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam](https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam)
 * and my write up on this topic:
 * _[ link redacted, please do not send users to your site that way ]_
 *  Thread Starter [inquire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inquire/)
 * (@inquire)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isp-problem-with-spam/#post-4720066)
 * It appears that WordPress comments is a spam trap. Is there a captcha form for
   the WordPress login web page?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [inquire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inquire/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isp-problem-with-spam/#post-4720066)
 * Status: not resolved

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