--- Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gns wrote: > > Many mailing lists these days require entering of > a verification code or characters displayed on the > page while subscribing. This ensures the > subscription is done by a *human* and not a bot. > > "CAPTCHA" schemes, in which the verification code is > display as an image > need to have an alternative method for people who > can't see the image, > and unfortunately, many of those alternatives are > automatable.
Likewise captcha itself has been broken and automated too thanks to OCR software and thus you now can find captcha images that require guessing from a human. The scripter in any case is still stupid imho to spam mailing lists/forums here because no one is going look and the only achievement is the irritating of list/forum members. it would be nice if the forum code used on open solaris would insert a x-originating-ip header so that the origin of the spam is not attributed to Sun Microsystems ip space in cases of where the spam is fed into automatic spam processing systems that will look at Received and x-originating-ip headers. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
