[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] buildbot failure in amd64 gentoo 2.5 (original) (raw)

Benji York benji at benjiyork.com
Wed Jan 24 17:09:19 CET 2007

Michael Hudson wrote:

Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> writes:

On 23/01/2007 10.20, Brian Warner wrote:

Do I miss something here, or is the buildbot hit by spammers now? It looks like it is. If that continues, we have to disable the web triggers. Good grief. If anyone has any bright ideas about simple ways to change that form to make it less vulnerable to the spambots, I'd be happy to incorporate them into Buildbot. I'd throw a CAPTCHA in. There are even some written in Python. I'd guess even the simplest thing would work: _"Type "Python" into this box: __"

The approach (outlined here http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html) of having a hidden field that is "attractive" to spam bots, but hidden from humans would seem to be as effective without the (slight) annoyances of filling in an extra field every time.

Benji York

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