Owen Densmore wrote: > Wow! I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces! ... > Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites? Any > interesting solutions?
I have no site to which this could happen, so take my suggestion for what it's worth. That said, I think one could turn the spammers' methods back on themselves. Many spam emails have obfuscated words in the subject to fool spam filters. The filters don't recognize these obfuscations but the human mind does recognize enough to translate them. That's how some word puzzles work, also. So, instead of a CAPTCHA that is so warped the average person can't figure out what letter or number it is meant to hide, why not present obfuscated words just like the spam emails? Humans can figure these out readily - the spambots can't do any better than the spam filters. -- Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDART Project Lead Voice:505-844-4024 IORTA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
