On 6-Jan-2008, at 14:02, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of
captcha, or other technique to discourage bots?
There is no current plan.
There really should be.
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--On January 16, 2008 11:21:41 AM -0700 LuKreme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There really should be.
To which I reply:
It's open source. Start coding and submit a patch.
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LuKreme writes:
On 6-Jan-2008, at 14:02, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of
captcha, or other technique to discourage bots?
There is no current plan.
There really should be.
Why? It's user-unfriendly and botnet-friendly
On 1/16/08, LuKreme wrote:
Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of
captcha, or other technique to discourage bots?
There is no current plan.
There really should be.
CAPTCHAs don't work. The best mechanism I've found so far that does
work is to moderate (or
Matt Domsch wrote:
Several times this week I've received spam to my lists which are set
to allow postings only by list members. Upon review, something
(either bot or human, but I'm betting bot as they hit many lists at
once) subscribed the spam sender email to the lists via the web form,
sent
Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of
captcha, or other technique to discourage bots?
Anyone else hit by this practice much?
Human assisted registration is becoming more popular - apparently there is even
setups where they auto farm-out the capcha recognition to
On 1/6/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Anyone else hit by this practice much?
I've never seen it on lists with subscribe_policy of either Confirm or
Approve. I don't allow open subscribe.
I've seen spammers (or bots) get subscribed to lists and try to spam,
then unsubscribe. However, pretty much
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
On the whole, I have found these things so rare that it hasn't been a
real problem. However, in principle lists could easily be targeted,
so it is worth considering captchas.
Captchas have been discussed, and were not considered worthwhile.
(1) There are many
On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jeffrey Goldberg writes:
[...] it is worth considering captchas.
Captchas have been discussed, and were not considered worthwhile.
[snip of explanation of the lack of effectiveness and annoyance of
capchas]
Thank you. I've always
On 1/6/08 7:01 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(3) On the other hand, hard to read captchas are exactly that: hard to
read. For humans, too. So introducing captchas the score is Spammers
2, Humans 0.
Yes indeed. One that takes me two to three tries to match is annoying.
On 1/6/08, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
I suspect that with a Confirm subscription policy (which is the
minimum anyone should run) there really isn't too much to worry about
in that we can always end up requiring approval for subscriptions (or
moderate) associated with domains that show a
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