Spam on amarok.kde.org

[Mauro Faccenda]

I think that a good captcha is good enough, if you think that is to aviod
*the majority* of spam, not avoid it completely. is really easy to implement
and people are already used to it. Something more complex just irritate
people, like the captcha in Rapidshare.

just my 2 cents.


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:49 AM, David C. Manuelda <stormbyte at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this is not enough, as most of spammers are real humans. I.E. I
> have a
> website protected by a temporal number image, and 3 or 4 people registered
> to
> spam. So the only one explanation is that they are humans!
>
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 15:47:06 Amara Emerson wrote:
> > We need to find a system which asks the user philosophical questions
> > that human beings can answer, but botmakers cannot. There may be a
> > final solution yet.
> >
> > Amara
> >
> > 2008/7/9 Gleb Litvjak <blaster999 at gmail.com>:
> > > On Wednesday 09 July 2008 15:31:20 Tom Förster wrote:
> > >> I don't think a CAPTCHA would be the Right Thing (TM) (if you are
> > >> speaking of the 'type these letters'-type). These things are too often
> > >> solved by an algorithm and a pain to read.
> > >
> > > What about a more sophisticated CAPTCHA? For example, to post you have
> to
> > > answer which of the following pictures is a ball (seen on a torrent
> > > site).
> > >
> > >> IMO, two radiobuttons, one with "No, I'm not a robot" and "Yes, I am",
> > >> with the default on "Yes", could do the same.
> > >
> > > If the botmakers learn about that question, the protection won't work
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