[Pdx-pm] kwiki and TypeKey - spammed again!
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Mon Apr 16 21:20:33 PDT 2007
Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Wil Cooley wrote:
>> Do you create the data file? It would seem like you'd have to,
>
> Yes you do. As does every other administrator and since we're all coming up
> with our q&a the spammer would lose his economy of scale to figure out all the
> answers. Spammer cannot download the file directly, though enough visits to
> the web site in question would yield up all the questions. That, again,
> increases the spammers cost.
Right, that makes sense then--as long as it isn't depending on a
distributed data file, you're okay. Otherwise it's just an exercise in
parsing.
Wil
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