[FRIAM] Comment Spam!

[Raymond Parks]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Wow!  I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces!
...
> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites?  Any 
> interesting solutions?

   I have no site to which this could happen, so take my suggestion for 
what it's worth.  That said, I think one could turn the spammers' 
methods back on themselves.  Many spam emails have obfuscated words in 
the subject to fool spam filters.  The filters don't recognize these 
obfuscations but the human mind does recognize enough to translate them. 
  That's how some word puzzles work, also.

   So, instead of a CAPTCHA that is so warped the average person can't 
figure out what letter or number it is meant to hide, why not present 
obfuscated words just like the spam emails?  Humans can figure these out 
readily - the spambots can't do any better than the spam filters.

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