talin> While it is true that there is an arms race between creators of talin> social software applications and spammers, this arms race is only talin> waged the largest scales - spammers simply won't spend the effort talin> to go after individual sites, its not cost effective, especially talin> when there are much more lucrative targets.
The advantage of choosing a couple simple topical questions means that in theory, every Roundup installation can create a site-specific set of questions. If each site builds a small database of 10 or so questions then chooses two or three at random for each submission, it seems that would make Roundup, a very challenging system to hack in this regard. It would also likely be tough to use the porn site human proxy idea as well since questions will (or ought to be) topical (what is the power operator?, what does the "E" in R. E. Olds stand for?), not general (what star shines during the day? what day preceeds Monday?) Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com