On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, John Morton wrote: > It's a test to find out if the agent that requested the page is human or some > bot of some sort.
Assuming you can build such a test. Good luck. > If the question and answer can be arbitary on a site by site, or better, > hit by hit basis, then it becomes infeasible to build a spambot to enter > such sites. If it's arbitrary, it's generated by some algorithm. If it's generated by some algorithm, I just need to figure out the algorithm and I can always get it. > I'd pregenrate them, give them an arbitary name and store a dictionary > mapping email addresses to the image for page building purposes. > > > Once you've got that database, why not > > just have that database front a web form instead of displaying the > > address? > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you explain? If you've got a database mapping arbitrary number/name/string to an email address, then why not just have a web form that sends mail to that address knowing only the arbitrary value (and never divulge the email address)? > I'd prefer a slashdot style per user 'display address' option. I don't believe any system like slashdot's is worth the time to implement, since it is just as easily broken, and now you've got more useless stuff for every single user to manage. --- Dale Newfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -T. Roosevelt _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
