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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: human validation on post comments
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:54:24 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4011C9692@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fetter [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 21 March 2006 16:45
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] human validation on post comments
>
> The porn thing works just fine no matter what the timeout is, as the
> spam is queued up already and the capcha gets presented as soon as
> it's generated. The porn surfer will generally not dally when
> presented with the capcha.
Generating enough real traffic to a dummy site to ensure that there is
always user ready to read a single capcha within a few minutes of it
being generated just to post a single piece of spam seems like a pretty
mean feat. I would think they could generate more revenue from bunging a
few ads on the site than hoping that the spam they manage to get on a
completely unrelated site might actually generate a customer. Still, I'm
only speculating so may be completely wrong.
> But apart from its ineffectiveness on spammers, as others have
> mentioned, capcha excludes blind people. :(
Yes - it's a shame none of us thought about it when Gevik was originally
working on it.
There is the audio option I suggested which Paypal use IIRC -
alternatively we could use some sort of puzzle - such as 'enter the
third, second from last and 2nd character from this string'.
Regards, Dave.
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