It seems the commenting system on Pharyngula has been broken for years.
http://scienceblogs....etter_to_seed.php
Scott and Mike have a big market for the software that runs this place just waiting for them... ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
PZ resorts to that technique, too.
It seems the commenting system on Pharyngula has been broken for years.
http://scienceblogs....etter_to_seed.php Scott and Mike have a big market for the software that runs this place just waiting for them... ;-) Cheers, Scott. |
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IWT uses registration to stop that
Which stops 99% of it. The small amount of spam we see here is from people manually registering accounts to post.
Keeping spam out of comments with open registration is difficult, but not impossible. Hidden form fields (honeypots) and a few other techniques can kill almost all of it. Here's a good description of the techniques: http://nedbatchelder...ext/stopbots.html Regards,
-scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Interesting. Thanks.
I see you posted a pointer to Ned's site there, too. :-)
Cheers, Scott. (Who often has trouble with Captchas, especially the fancy ones like - http://giveupinterne...hare-captcha-pic/ .) |
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It's basically a solved problem.
Regards,
-scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
Let's see if this gets their attention
- (drook)
- (26)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 09:26:08 AM EDT
Indeed.
-NT
- (static)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 09:32:41 AM EDT
And when I get them on the phone ...
- (drook)
- (5)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 09:48:04 AM EDT
I copied that link to their legal and investor relations
- (boxley)
- (4)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 09:57:15 AM EDT
I can get his contact, but I'll have to pay for it
- (drook)
- (3)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 10:36:20 AM EDT
dont pay for it, they are scraping the same stuff we are
- (boxley)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 10:49:07 AM EDT
firstinitialLastname@domain?
- (mvitale)
- (1)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 11:17:06 AM EDT
Well, it didn't immediately bounce, we'll see
-NT
- (drook)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 11:24:08 AM EDT
Hmmm ...
- (drook)
- (14)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 12:08:30 PM EDT
:)
- (mvitale)
- (4)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 02:17:13 PM EDT
Not yet
- (drook)
- (3)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 02:56:16 PM EDT
I'm not the only one
- (drook)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 03:33:05 PM EDT
Nicely worded.
- (malraux)
- (1)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 03:47:05 PM EDT
Werd
- (drook)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 04:06:46 PM EDT
Who else should I write?
- (drook)
- (8)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 03:45:52 PM EDT
A few
- (folkert)
- (3)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 04:26:01 PM EDT
Maybe not needed
- (drook)
- (2)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 05:25:15 PM EDT
That seems to have done the trick. :-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 06:38:31 PM EDT
They seemed much nicer on the phone this time
- (drook)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 06:48:51 PM EDT
Re: Who else should I write?
- (boxley)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 04:44:39 PM EDT
Remember "United Breaks Guitars"?
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 04:54:09 PM EDT
well its hard to sing and play trombone at the same time
-NT
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 05:04:48 PM EDT
Dude, that's Scott ... I'm a drummer
-NT
- (drook)
- Sept. 21, 2009, 05:25:50 PM EDT
PZ resorts to that technique, too.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- Oct. 17, 2009, 01:06:12 PM EDT
IWT uses registration to stop that
- (malraux)
- (2)
- Oct. 17, 2009, 02:09:19 PM EDT
Interesting. Thanks.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2009, 02:55:55 PM EDT
It's basically a solved problem.
-NT
- (malraux)
- Oct. 18, 2009, 11:53:30 AM EDT
