X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226A3DB908 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:12:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58318-01 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:12:43 +0000 (GMT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from svr2.postgresql.org (svr2.postgresql.org [65.19.161.25]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70347DB943 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:12:43 -0400 (AST) Received: from bramble.mmrd.com (bramble.mmrd.com [65.217.53.66]) by svr2.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8C4F0C3B for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:12:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thorn.mmrd.com (thorn.mmrd.com [172.25.10.100]) by bramble.mmrd.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jAHGjKkB004261; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:45:20 -0500 Received: from gnvex001.mmrd.com (gnvex001.mmrd.com [10.225.10.110]) by thorn.mmrd.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jAHGCYd20177; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:12:35 -0500 Received: from [10.225.105.30] (10.225.105.30 [10.225.105.30]) by gnvex001.mmrd.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id TWDADCYP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:12:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Broken? http://www.postgresql.org/about/ From: Robert Treat To: Dave Page Cc: gevik@xs4all.nl, pgsql-www@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 17 Nov 2005 11:12:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1132243954.16256.136.camel@camel> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.000] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/119 X-Sequence-Number: 8834 On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 05:28, Dave Page wrote: > BTW, how goes the form submission verification? > I heard an interesting twist on this... rather than doing image verification, you instead reject submissions that come from page that don't contain a postgresql.org refferrer on the submission page. The idea being the spam bots post directly to the submission page, but users navigate thier way into the page. simple (and transparent to the user) but apparently very effective for some folks that have implemented it. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL