Posted by vrlist.info on 12/05/07 12:41

Hi Colin,

On 4 dic, 15:13, "C." <colin.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I do not like the catcha system.
>
> Is it Turing tests in general you don't like? Use a different one.

I do not like it because there are quite a lot of people having
problems with.

> > I have an idea and so I am registration the IPs of the sites
> > considered as spam in a different table (fields: IP, last-date,
> > times). Most of them are repeting submissions.
>
> It would take almost as long to write the code for this as to write
> this post. If it solves your problem then fine - but its not valid as
> a generic solution.

Maybe it is a problem of skill, it takes to me much more time. And,
yes, you are right, maybe it is not a generic solution.

> I'd suggest requiring a validated email address for all posters and
> mediating the content via email with spamassasin and let it do the
> hard work.

I send an email for all the posters. The spam via email is not a real
problem (spam blocked on the email server), my problem is at the
database. Validating the email would save some of them, but usually
they put a generic sintactically valid email.

Thank you for your answer.

Luisa
http://www.vrlist.info

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