Re: [pysqlite] [OT] Trac spam

"Joshua J. Kugler" <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:46:47 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Organization EE Internet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Gerhard H=E4ring said something like:
> Trac spam has become a lot better since I introduced my custom
> ReCaptcha registration module.
>
> Apparently manpower is too cheap, especially that using Chinese DSL
> providers, so I switched away from ReCaptcha and put a new challenge
> in there where you need to have a Python prompt available when you
> want to register a Trac account ;-)
>
> http://oss.itsystementwicklung.de/trac/pysqlite/register

Won't that be even easier for bots? They can just scrape the screen and =

feed it to a Python parser. But since your site is probably the only =

one out there using "Python CAPTCHA," you're probably safe for now. :)

j

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