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Prove that you are a human being

Posted by Gautham Pai in General, World Wide Web on December 11, 2007

In continuing with my observations made here, I wonder if the following way of preventing someone from spamming a commenting system really helps:

____________ Spam protection: Sum of II plus III plus IV ?

If I really want to spam this site, I can write a simple routine to scrape the string matching 'Sum of ___ ?' and then feed that into Google like this:

Google search: II plus III plus IV

And there you go! You are spammed!

google-search, spam

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Wanna reduce email spam?

Posted by Gautham Pai in World Wide Web on February 19, 2007

I was curious about how much a 'abc-at-xyz-dot-com' way of displaying email addresses, helps in reducing spam. So I did this search: * at * dot * and the results did not surprise me.