On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Thomas Dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now if I could just return an HTTP status that meant Go [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yourself.
That's more or less what 403 means[1]. In fact, returning:
htmlheadtitleGo [EMAIL PROTECTED] yourself/title/headbodypAnd your
spamming
I believe that would be an error 438 (38 = F U on a DTMF keypad). Would you
like to co-author an Internet Draft to get it in the RFC? ;)
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I renamed our input for e-mail address from 'input name=email' to
something pretty
More anecdote: I got rid of pretty much 100% of spam on our blog by
commenting out the URL input box. Then add a few lines of code to the
comment processor:
if ($_POST['url']) {
header('HTTP/1.0 406 Not Acceptable');
exit;
}
If the post contains a URL it's a bot, since a human wouldn't be
Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]
And then fails. Anyone managed to do this, or have any other advice for
using Recaptcha from perl?
Please don't use it as a barrier on the only access route to a
service, else you will be locking out humans with vision or hearing
problems, or
The Recaptcha device specifically also provides an audio test. But point
taken, even so it could prevent accessibility challenges.
Nevertheless, when my system is currently receiving around one software
powered spam per minute, I need a quick pre-built drop-in solution to
this; I don't have
- Jonathan Rochkind, Johns Hopkins Univ. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But it doesn't look to me like a university and/or library can use
Akismet for free; it looks like it might be $25/month ($300 a year),
which is a bit steep. But I'm not certain; anyone know if a university
library can maybe
Ask the user for a 'VIP code', which is programatically generated elsewhere
on the page or another page.
Worked well on a PHBB2 board I once used.
David.
2008/7/1 - Jonathan Rochkind, Johns Hopkins Univ. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Akismet looks great, I hadn't been familiar with this before.
But it
