Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Eli Barzilay wrote at 03/23/2011 04:20 PM: But the obvious advantage of staying with the common captcha is that many other sites probably suffer, which means that it will get better. (Or the internet will be shut down...) Biodiversity. After Java and Python are wiped out in the coming sp

Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
RPN with signed ternary should keep them confused for a little while anyway. On Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Will the syntax be infix or prefix?  Will the semantics be fixednum or bignum? > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Matthias Felleisen > wrote: >> >> can yo

Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-23 Thread Eli Barzilay
Yesterday, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Robby Findler wrote at 03/22/2011 11:28 PM: > > Looks like the spammers have found a way thru google's captcha thing. > > That's frustrating. I wonder whether a simple homebrew captcha > (e.g., varying but simple Racket expression that even beginners > understand

Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-23 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
Will the syntax be infix or prefix? Will the semantics be fixednum or bignum? On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > can you turn these captcha expressions into small arithmetic expressions > that people know they need to compute and the spammers don't see? > > > On Mar 2

Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-23 Thread Matthias Felleisen
can you turn these captcha expressions into small arithmetic expressions that people know they need to compute and the spammers don't see? On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Looks like the spammers have found a way thru google's captcha thing. > There were just three spam tic

Re: [racket-dev] spam trac tickets

2011-03-22 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Robby Findler wrote at 03/22/2011 11:28 PM: Looks like the spammers have found a way thru google's captcha thing. That's frustrating. I wonder whether a simple homebrew captcha (e.g., varying but simple Racket expression that even beginners understand and can do in their head) would be ef