Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-20 Thread Daniel Koch
Check out Gimpy, which I believe is what Yahoo uses: http://www.captcha.net/captchas/gimpy/ http://www.captcha.net/ Narins, Josh wrote: Can GIMP be programmatically set up to warp/woof/weird-out an image? Yahoo's warped words works, I bet, since they use it. I'm referring to get getting an

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BM" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> I've got a mod_perl feed-back form that sends mail to a specific address.. BM> Spammers have their bots hitting the form now. The tricks I know of are: Rename your script and the link pointing to it. It will take some time for them to f

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
At 02:51 PM 12/18/02 -0500, Daniel Koch wrote: >Check out Gimpy, which I believe is what Yahoo uses: > >http://www.captcha.net/captchas/gimpy/ I'm thinking of something along those lines. This problem is this is on Solaris 2.6 w/o root, and I'll bet it would take some time to get The Gimp and GTK

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Issac Goldstand
- Original Message - Subject: RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions > Can GIMP be programmatically set up to warp/woof/weird-out an image? > > Yahoo's warped words works, I bet, since they use it. > > I'm referring to get getting an anon email account from

RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Narins, Josh
Can GIMP be programmatically set up to warp/woof/weird-out an image? Yahoo's warped words works, I bet, since they use it. I'm referring to get getting an anon email account from yahoo.com -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2

Re: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Perrin Harkins
Bill Moseley wrote: what would you recommend for caching the md5 strings. Cache::Cache or DBM? I suppose a Cache::Cache file cache would be the easiest. In order of speed: IPC::MM BerkeleyDB (with built-in locking) Cache::Mmap Cache::FileBackend (from Cache::Cache -- no need to use Cache::Cach

RE: [OT] Ideas for limiting form submissions

2002-12-18 Thread Clare, Bruce W
Some other "imperfect" solutions: * Take the CRC (or some other hash function) of the message content and reject messages with duplicate CRC (still vulnerable to morphing of the message). * limit submissions by sender to one every X minutes. Avoids the AOL issue, but vulnerable to DDOS and spoofin