Michael Hudson wrote: > Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 23/01/2007 10.20, Brian Warner wrote: >> >>>>> Do I miss something here, or is the buildbot hit by spammers now? >>>> It looks like it is. If that continues, we have to disable the web >>>> triggers. >>> Good grief. If anyone has any bright ideas about simple ways to change that >>> form to make it less vulnerable to the spambots, I'd be happy to incorporate >>> them into Buildbot. >> I'd throw a CAPTCHA in. There are even some written in Python. > > I'd guess even the simplest thing would work: > > "Type "Python" into this box: ______"
The approach (outlined here http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html) of having a hidden field that is "attractive" to spam bots, but hidden from humans would seem to be as effective without the (slight) annoyances of filling in an extra field every time. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
