[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 17 12:15:01 CEST 2007

Talin wrote:

Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site, with a front page that says "you must be 18 or older to enter". The page also has a captcha to verify that you are a real person. But here's the trick: The captcha is actually a proxy to some other site that the spammer is trying to get access to.

The "python-related question" technique would probably be somewhat resistant to this, as your average porn surfer probably doesn't know anything about Python. (At least until CP4E takes off and everyone knows Python...)

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