From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9QkE-0007nD-2E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60216E055D; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A06DE055D for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.isohunt.com (b01.ext.isohunt.com [208.71.112.51]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6FD6682F for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6397 invoked from network); 27 May 2009 21:33:02 -0000 Received: from tsi-static.orbis-terrarum.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (76.10.188.108) (smtp-auth username robbat2@isohunt.com, mechanism login) by mail.isohunt.com (qpsmtpd/0.33-dev on beta01) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:02 +0000 Received: (qmail 22054 invoked by uid 10000); 27 May 2009 14:32:59 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:32:59 -0700 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription Message-ID: References: <4A1D6C7C.7090605@gentoo.org> <4A1D8A44.3090101@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A1D8A44.3090101@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 555015bf-05e5-4d6f-94c9-1c4cbf451f29 X-Archives-Hash: f5396d20bf110ce11f2b810fca6bbd0f --Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Is there something besides a captcha that can be used? I hate those > things because they make no sense to me. I usually just give up when I > encounter one of these and try three or four times with no success. The > ones that look like broken glass or something are the ones I don't even > try anymore. I can't get past one of those. recaptcha [1] is very common at this point, offloads the problem to an external service, supports visually-challenged users, and includes it's own detection of brute forcing from IP addresses and subnets. If that's not acceptable to you, I'll just deploy calculus-captcha. calculus-captcha is best viewed on this page here: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php (reload a few times to see the fun they had in qualifying questions). --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks - The text below is a digital signature. If it doesn't make any sense to you, ignore it. iEYEARECAAYFAkodsYoACgkQPpIsIjIzwiwlYgCgpDjw9pld5xg63+8HuJQN/rCv zAwAn3uvxVT8EdNsfTMSMRbvUrbDW1KB =ZM/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/--