Why not just use the traditional image-word deal and
change it up a couple times a week? This should keep
the actual amount of filter-text down to just a word.
-S-
--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Nicholas-
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:43, Brion Vibber
wrote:
> The wikidown address has been getting spam in
the
last few days... I
> don't know if Lee still has it forwarding
to his
beeper, but that could
> be awful annoying. :P
>
> Suggestions?
Auto-reject anything that doesn't have a
certain
string in it?
Naturally this can't be something simply
tossed
along side the address. I'd
suggest omething like "Add pi to itself. For
the
purposes of this exercise,
pi is three-point-one-four. Include the result in
the subject.". Takes two
seconds, not worth the effort for spammers to try
and parse automatically
(yet), and not terribly likely to show up as an
actual part of the spam.
A simple "the body needs to contain the message 'The
chief difficulty
Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo'"
should be completely
sufficient. Spammers are usually bots.
Alternatively, just set up SpamAssassin. It catches
most of the spam.
Regards,
Erik
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