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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Broken? http://www.postgresql.org/about/
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:18:37 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4E7E10C@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Treat [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 17 November 2005 16:12
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Broken? http://www.postgresql.org/about/
> 
> 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. 

Sounds like a good idea, except legitimate clients might not send it (I
don't know off-hand if any do offer a way to stop it, but it seems like
a sensible privacy option). Also I imagine it would be really easy to
add it to the spam bots, so I doubt it'll be long before it stops
working for them as well.

Regards, Dave.

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