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Re: Dear Blogger - the truth about your CAPTCHA

Sunday, 4. November 2007, 20:24:43

Reading MJ Ray's post on planet.debian.org and the interesting news of how spamers "crack" CAPTCHA's I keep thinking solutions like the one offered by projecthoneypot.org might be the feature of anti-spam technologies.


Please let me know if you see other successful ways to reduce spam or encourage good comments.


I would say using projecthoneypot's http:BL API could help (even tough I haven't actually tried it).

But the statistics and available IP data give a good impression of the system :D

I've even suggested to collaborate and use http:BL at b.d.o but at the moment there has been no reply.

First outputs of a more or less functional DeBaBaReToolsmass bugs filing: debian/watch fails to report upstream's version

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