I run servers, and I spend an unfortunate amount of time fighting spam. Most of it comes from Yahoo! or Hotmail or gmail accounts, bogus accounts opened by programs, and then used to spam.
I've read that the OCR is only about 40% accurate when solving the captcha, but just means that they have to keep trying. captcha is not a magic bullet. Jorden van der Elst wrote: > 2009/8/11 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>: >> El Martes 11 Ago 2009 13:00:41 Jorden van der Elst escribió: >>> Isn't it possible to truly lock tickets when they're locked (only >>> those with an admin tag can reopen them or add comments), or otherwise >>> add a recaptcha to writing any comment on any ticket? >> It's reasonable for *users* to reopen tickets if they find the bug still >> exists. > > OK, then a recaptcha of sorts. I'm part of a forums where for the > first 10 posts I must solve a recaptcha will my post go through. let > the spammers bite themselves on that one. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
