yes but they still help.

spammers can get around anything.

there may be newer better methods, but
the type-in-the-letter hacks i know of are somewhat
labour- and resource-intensive on the spammers,
so i think it might be worth a shot.

i was getting several comment-spams per week on my
blogspot blogs, but since enabling the 'type in the letters'
thing it's dropped to zero. - altho i only made that change
a week or two ago, so the sample size is pretty small.


orion


Sean Glazier sglazier-at-comcast.net |squeak devlists| wrote:
> The spammers have tools to get around those.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of oxe
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 4:24 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Wiki Vandalism again
> 
> how about adding one of those "type in the letters you see here" jobbies ?
> 
> that must be getting to be a fairly standard package by now..
> 
> orion
> 
> 
> Jochen F. Rick nadja-at-cc.gatech.edu |squeak devlists| wrote:
> 
>>Are there any keywords they are using? like viagra? hot asian women? etc? 
>>that you want me to ban?
>>
>>Peace and Luck!
>>
>>Je77
>>
>>PS reply to me and not the list.
>>
>>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:41:29PM +0200, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>recently I've been fixing vandalized Swiki pages almost every day - 
>>>looks like somebody has implemented some auto-vandalizer script or so.
>>>Could the nice folks who run the Swiki (hi Mark!) maybe add some code 
>>>which checks whether the e-mail alert addresses contains HTML tags and 
>>>reject (or silently ignore) submissions in that case? That would at leas 
>>>stop this one vandal.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Hans-Martin
>>
>>
> 
>