Re: emails and spam harvesters.

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Dear mr.weller,i suggest that fedoraproject should use recaptcha instead of simple plugin.
Btw,i also suggest that we should draw more attention to spammers.i reported a spam user weeks ago to you.

On Thursday, February 2, 2012, Ian Weller <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:56:56AM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> Is it posiible to make it harder for harvesters,
>> when that's done.
>> Maybe a captha like the wiki comments, add 2 + 6?
>
> - In its current state, no. Someone would have to write code for that or
>  package an extension.
> - CAPTCHAs are broken anyway (we've found spammers cracking the captchas
>  we use and a lot of sites that use reCAPTCHA are getting invalid edits
>  from bots).
> - Attempting to disguise the address to trick automated email harvesters
>  may help but won't get rid of all spam.
>
> --
> Ian Weller <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

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