I administer several wikis (Netrek, my own, and a couple of others), and a trac instance for One Laptop Per Child, and the evidence I've collected suggests there are evolutionary algorithms being used by botnets, and certainly one of the winning tricks at the moment is a very small amount of link spam, which makes the effort to fix it hardly worth while compared to what happens when several pages are attacked.
The CAPTCHA's are probably being filled out by third-party; where they are presented to a legitimate user as part of some other transaction on another web site. The sites that require e-mail confirmation of new account tend to be the least trouble for me to administer ... but I expect it won't be long before that method is compromised. New e-mail addresses are so easy to get. The site with the least trouble at the moment has an HTTP AUTH in front of it with a well known password. Well known to the community that uses it, that is. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
