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Post by Tone on May 31, 2008 21:05:37 GMT
>But at an aesthetic level, they display a beauty and invoke a sense of wonder.<
Right on!
And, also, they show that the place hasn't been disturbed!
Tone
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Post by Rajesh Valluri AKA Raj on Jun 1, 2008 10:31:07 GMT
As a computer engineer by profession I deal with spam all the time. May I suggest the use of a CAPTCHA plugin. For those of you not familiar with it, it is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart." It would help avoid automatic posting of spam messages by computerised bots.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 1, 2008 12:07:25 GMT
The spam was posted with "guest" access, which already uses a captcha test.
Captcha tests can be subverted, but my best guess is that these spam items were pasted by a human. There is lots of evidence that spam is now so profitable that spammers pay people in poor parts of the word to enter spam manually.
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Post by Rajesh Valluri AKA Raj on Jun 1, 2008 14:35:47 GMT
Humans being used for posting thousands of spam messages. I guess that's one ill-effect of cheap labour right there. I remember when I used to get phone calls at 4:00 in the morning from some over-enthusiastic tele-marketer based out of India selling me credit cards. They used to continue the conversation even after I mention that it is four in the morning. We are living in interesting times.
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