SilverStripe Newsletter
I personally get very frustrated with captchas, especially really awkwardly
hard to interpret ones. And the questions below are novel for a while but
wear you down after 10->20 a day!
One reason I get frustrated with them is that there are great beyesian
filters out there that just "know" if a comment is spam or not. When you
submit something, it asks a >global webservice if the text seems human or
not, and its very accurate. I only realised these existed late last year,
but they've been a godsend for the sites we build.
I don't really think that is a good solution...
look at email spam and how much of it gets though spam filtering... and the
risk of false positives is too high for my liking.
... we need a better way.
I don't like captchas either and have so far avoided using them but if I
don't find a good alternative soon I might also be forced to use them as the
spambots out there get smarter and more capable to getting around basic
obsticles like form fields being named differently or checks on ips. (there
are even some spambots blatently using real ip addresses - eg rbnnetwork)
I has to disable trackbacks on my site because the submission process for
those is too open to spambots... (the standard process for submitting
trackbacks is fundamentally flawed - it lacks an extra step to ask for a
response from the client to check if the ip is real!)
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