OpenEuphoria

Re: Spam

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Apr 02, 2007
• 521 views

Al Getz wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> 
> We've had this problem for a while now too at another web site
> that i moderate.  The posters keep posting ads and it doesnt help
> to block their nick as they simply register with another nick
> and do the same thing and have the b***s to post the same darn post
> with the same stupid link to the same stupid site!!
> After deleting several hundred posts and more than 20 posts per
> day something more had to be done as it takes time to do all this work.
> To deal with this, the admins are making the registration process
> more 'machine unfriendly' by making the user type information
> read on the reg page where the information is typed using a very
> strange and varied font, something (presumably) a computer program
> can not do.

You are talking about Captchas, aren't you? Here is some more information:
http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/

Also interesting (probably easier to use for humans, and harder to
"use" for machines than Captchas) are "Mawchas". I only have a
German page at hand (look for the cross on the picture and click at
it with the mouse):
http://nögel.de/mawcha/index.php

Regards,
   Juergen