From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-09-29T09:15:24+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:14:42 +0900, Patrick May wrote: > A tarpit would be easier to implement than a captcha. In the usemod > settings, you use NetAddr::IP to check if the env's Remote Addr is > within a known spammer domain. If it is a spammer, set the pages > database to a copy. Nightly / weekly / whatever, dump the latest pages > directory on top of the tarpit. > > There goes one of my points for my presentation :-) > > The main resource in fighting spammers is time. You want to waste > their time, let them think that things are working. I'm approaching it, again, from a slightly different perspective. My goal is to make the page seem as if it were entirely a read-only website to robots, and 403 if they are known bad crawlers. I don't yet have IP banning, but I have robot exclusion. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca : as of this email, I have [ 6 ] Gmail invitations