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| Tech note... |
| 2008-03-20 |
| Being a patient fellow, I've gone for months watching spam posts pile up in the holding tank. I've even gone to the extent of writing a routine that makes most of it self-deleting. However, my perverse nature has forced me to leave the husks of the deleted spam as a matter of curiosity and for reference in constructing further routines. Eventually patience runs out. I've put a "captcha" on the poster that should reduce automated spam to a trickle while it increases Roadside America's hitcount significantly. And if there are actual people sitting there typing the spam in, we'll just have to deal with that another way. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Next step will be to allow those on the approved posters' list to bypass that page and go directly to the poster. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Presumably our posters are smarter than their bots. ...that leaves Frank G out so far, but he's still perfecting that perpetual motion bot blaster thingy in his garage...so there's hope. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Gling 2008-03-20 22:58 |
| #10 Presumably our posters are smarter than their bots. huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-03-20 22:09 |
| #9 What would it take to make us all go to SSL certificates and https: URLs? |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-03-20 22:02 |
| #8 Where's my bunny? ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-03-20 21:41 |
| #7 Next time you go to post an article you'll have to identify the contents of a picture -- fluffy bunny, teapot, floozy, that sort of thing. Presumably our posters are smarter than their bots. |
| Posted by: Fred 2008-03-20 21:20 |
| #6 sounds reasonable. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-03-20 20:57 |
| #5 I'm not sure what you said exactly, Fred, but I am sure you're a genius. So, whatever you do, it works for me. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-20 18:30 |
| #4 Can you send them to Amazon? Don't you get a small commission per click from Amazon? Profit from the bastards. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-03-20 18:11 |
| #3 Pity it couldn't be set up to give you some click through advertising money: http://www.net-ads.com/sponsorship/clickthru2.html |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-03-20 17:15 |
| #2 Don't worry TW, us RA's will figure it out. :-) |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-03-20 16:42 |
| #1 No worries, Fred. Only what will the Roadside America people do? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-20 15:49 |