Spam on this list? What spam?
I haven't seen any!
But then the fetchmail / procmail / spamprobe pipeline I use seems to
be very effective.
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, é×ÁÎ å×ÔÕÈÏ×ÉÞ wrote:
Last month i get too much spam-messages in this list. Now it is
difficult to read it.
There is only so much that can be done to prevent spam, short of
charging $ per post.
That would not only reduce spam(mers) but also legit users 
Reminds me of captchas.
They were implemented to reduce bots posting, but in the end they
just annoy me... I wasted so many times with captchas that if
I fail on first try, I leave the site. (Mind you, I am talking
about captchas with graphics. Some are soooo difficult to solve
without making an error ... soon we will have more bots solving
these tests than humans, as bots could reuse "problem
solving code" to solve that... BORG bot net )
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Marc Heiler wrote:
There is only so much that can be done to prevent spam, short of
charging $ per post.That would not only reduce spam(mers) but also legit users
Reminds me of captchas.
They were implemented to reduce bots posting, but in the end they
just annoy me... I wasted so many times with captchas that if
I fail on first try, I leave the site. (Mind you, I am talking
about captchas with graphics. Some are soooo difficult to solve
without making an error ... soon we will have more bots solving
these tests than humans, as bots could reuse "problem
solving code" to solve that... BORG bot net
There is talk about a sort of "reversed CAPTCHA".
You provide your info, and log in / perform the action as normal, but
the CAPTCHA is hidden from you.
If it is filled out, you are a bot. 
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Captchas are very easy to handle. You just enters the distorted text shown
into a field.
On 9 apr 2008, at 09.20, Marc Heiler wrote:
There is only so much that can be done to prevent spam, short of
charging $ per post.That would not only reduce spam(mers) but also legit users
Reminds me of captchas.
They were implemented to reduce bots posting, but in the end they
just annoy me... I wasted so many times with captchas that if
I fail on first try, I leave the site. (Mind you, I am talking
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Tommy Nordgren wrote:
Captchas are very easy to handle. You just enters the distorted text
shown
into a field.
Except when the CAPTCHAs are widely distorted, or have been made so
difficult with grids and dots, that a human can't decipher them.
Take a look at these examples:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001067.html
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