On 2026-07-06 10:58 a.m., info--- via cctalk wrote:
I run www.punchcardarchive.com. It runs on a shared server so I don’t worry too
much about that stuff. My fun and games are defeating the bots and useless
messages from my Contact page. I have a homegrown captcha. I require Roman
characters. I added a honeypot field. I require a minimum number of words in
the message. I recently got a message that had a whole page of text with a very
weird message. So I am putting in a max number of words test. And I am adding a
timer to the page so if the send-receive time is less that some number of
seconds I will consider it spam.
The internet is the Wild Wild West. Minus Jim West and Artemus Gordon.
Soon to be run by By Big Brother, AI.
It seems every link is hijacked for a AD, or adult or other wise.
I don't mind a site going off line, but rather the site being removed
from the web. I might not need to know of punch cards today, but who
knows in 5 years.
What I would like to is how MAG tape (7 track) was used before computers
has Operating Systems.
