[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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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc

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