Spam bots have always plagued me but I've never learned how to deal with this problem. The last time I tackled this issue I got distracted learning how PHP CURL can be used to send post data. I'm considering honeypot form fields as a simple counter-measure but let me know if there are better techniques or resources. I would also like to test my counter-measures by running a spam bot against my forms so I will need a working web form spam bot. Web application security experts never give you the tools to try the exploit. I don't think any counter-measure is guaranteed to be effective if you can't put it to the test.
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