Re: which anti-spam plugins should contrib include?

"Benj. Mako Hill" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
<quote who="Ryan Barrett" date="Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:55:04AM -0800">
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> 
> > nospam is pretty good. The current released version is *way* too
> > easy and has been defeated thousands of times on my site
> > alone. I've built a more
> 
> do you really mean that spam bots successfully ran OCR on it?

Yes.

> i have to admit, i'm surprised.

I was suprised as well. Especially since a bug in the comment email
reporting made many of the successful spamming invisible until my
whole website had been de-listed from Google. :)

Moving to a harder CAPTCHA fixed the probelsm. I documented the whole
ordeal here:

  http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/freesoftware/20060924-00

Later,
Mako

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