Michael Hudson wrote: > Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> writes: > >> On 23/01/2007 10.20, Brian Warner wrote: >> >>>>> Do I miss something here, or is the buildbot hit by spammers now? >>>> It looks like it is. If that continues, we have to disable the web >>>> triggers. >>> Good grief. If anyone has any bright ideas about simple ways to change that >>> form to make it less vulnerable to the spambots, I'd be happy to incorporate >>> them into Buildbot. >> I'd throw a CAPTCHA in. There are even some written in Python. > > I'd guess even the simplest thing would work: > > "Type "Python" into this box: ______" The approach (outlined here http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html) of having a hidden field that is "attractive" to spam bots, but hidden from humans would seem to be as effective without the (slight) annoyances of filling in an extra field every time. -- Benji York
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