On 21-Jan-07, at 1:25 PM, Dan Fink wrote: > We still have big problems with comment SPAM, and my research into the > system logs discovered that it's not even computers doing it, it's > real > humans! So all plans for writing a PERL script that made users type > in a > string of characters obscured by graphics were dropped. That is why I keep objecting to suggestions that captcha or some other obnoxious bot/human separation mechanism. For sites that require registrations to post, it's humans doing the spamming anyway. I do want to get the post throttle working for anonymous users, probably by IP, to cut down on anon spam. Scoop is actually pretty tricky to script spam, to judge by the fact that it's mostly humans who spam it. > All we can do to combat this is to set the post throttle very strict, > apologize to legitimate users who were exceptionally verbose on a > given > day and re-instate their user IDs manually, and delete SPAM when we > find > it. Your real users shouldn't get banned for triggering the post throttle unless you have it set to ban on the first overrun. It should put up a message telling them to take a break and come back in ten minutes. Post throttle should only ban if they try to post before their time is up several times in a row. -janra