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From: tedd
Date: Mar 13, 2007 10:20AM

At 4:25 PM +0000 3/13/07, Emma Duke-Williams wrote:
>On 3/13/07, tedd < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> At 12:09 PM -0400 3/13/07, John E. Brandt wrote:
>> >I was using phpBB on one of my servers and despite the captcha element, I
>> >was getting spam-bots by the dozen each day. It just got worse and worse so
>> >I took the phpBB offline.
>> >It sounds like we need a new method.
>> John:
>>
>> What kind of CAPTCHA were you using?
>>
>> tedd
>There's also the possiblity that the "spam bot" is, in fact, a human
>spammer: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/1217240
>
>Emma

Emma:

Of course there's always flaws in everything. But, on the bright
side, when a large portion of rest of the world is in poverty, this
is work for them. I find the ebb and flow of things always
interesting.

However, I'm not sure as to how they would fit in. Are they the ones
who inject spam into blogs? Clearly, they can't just report back "I
got into this blog by typing <whatever>" because "keys" change,
right? So, they must have some participation in spamming.

I do have a scheme for deterring spam, but need funding. I can build
a better mousetrap, but I'm reluctant to provide it for free. I guess
we all need work.

Cheers,

tedd
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