[extropy-chat] Blog spam

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Sep 27 08:15:08 UTC 2005


On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:40:22PM -0700, Reason wrote:

> Movable Type is well up to the spam challenge. All the necessaries are now

The pathetic part is that they were surprised by the fact that there was
spam.

> included in the standard version 3.2; the cost of getting MT set up on a
> hosted service is somewhat less than the cost of suffering spam, I think
> you'll find.

I think Turing tests, moderation, authentication and whitelisting
should be sufficient. Proof of work is also something even more 
difficult to provide.

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