Re: Scheme Cookbook spam

King Doug wrote:

> Anton von Straaten wrote: 

>>Continuing on my quest for a qualifying question for signing up, how about
>>providing a Scheme code snippet which people can paste into their favorite
>>implementation to run it, and then enter the result on the signup page?
> 
> 
> What's to stop the spammers from automating their answers, by parsing the 
> challenge, putting the snippet through a command-line Scheme, and sending 
> back the answer?
> 
> All these sorts of things are merely entering into an "arms race" with the 
> spammers, and annoying potential users.

I was of the impression that the spammers were using automated tools,
which spam "standard" TWiki-wikis. Normal spammers won't (I hope)
bother to install Scheme just spam the cookbook - it is faster to find
an unprotected TWiki elsewhere.

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard




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