Suggestion for Filtering Bots and the Ignorant

If I ever see one of those CAPTCHA images on a porn site, I'll see if it accepts a wrong answer. I wonder if they wait for the legitimate site to let them in before letting the porn seeker in.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by tvanflandern</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jrich</i>
<br />If you implement a CAPTCHA test when posting and provide an expiration of 30-60 seconds, they would have to have a VERY popular free porn site to generate a timely solution.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Keeping ahead of spambots is challenging. To defeat your countermeasure, the spambot will simply wait until it has a "client" before attempting to register. [] -|Tom|-
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Excellent point!


JR

An AI-Porn complex would be one of several AI complexes including a potentially enormous AI-Google complex and others we haven't yet thought of, comprising our future Media. It will be interesting to see how they grow, how they globalise, how they interact with the forces of Law and Order throughout the world.

The AI-Porn complex is here to stay because its ingenuity is universal. I am reminded of Australia's "Bottom of the harbour" tax avoidance schemes of the 1970s, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_of_the_harbour_tax_avoidance :

"The operation at the heart of bottom of the harbour schemes was simple. A company would be s*****ed [striipped] of assets and accumulated profits before its tax fell due, leaving it then unable to pay.

Once assets were s*****ed [striipped], the company would be sent, metaphorically, to "the bottom of the harbour" (referring to Sydney harbour) by being transferred to [a derelict] someone of limited means and with little interest in its past activities. The company's records were often lost too. The ATO, being in the same position as other unsecured creditors in the case of an insolvent company, ended up with nothing."

Ignore all messages from "Harry". It appears another spambot got through our filters. But it was stopped before it could do much harm. -|Tom|-

We are now being bombarded by spambots attempting to place ads on message boards. We get an average of six such attempts by spambots to register every day. Our 3-question quiz seems to keep most of them out, at least for now. We are still planning to replace the existing software with something having better controls so we can keep this Board a friendly environment as spambots grow more sophisticated and obnoxious.

In connection with CAPTCHA, I'm getting spam messages every day now for incredible bargains, cheap software, and other useful products or services. Many of these use CAPTCHA where you have to decipher a pattern of numbers or letters. Almost all of them are spambots only trying to get you to translate the characters for them. Typically, after you have gone to a lot of trouble entering personal information, you are presented with a CAPTCHA box and you feel compelled to try it because you have already gone so far. The result will be a new CAPTCHA box, making it appear to you that you got something wrong the first time. This goes on, getting you to translate CAPTCHA boxes, until you tire of the game and give up. But the spambot has done its job by getting you to translate many boxes. And your "reward" is to get onto many additional "sucker" lists and get lots more spam of the same type.

Our only defense is to never, ever attempt to purchase or respond to an unsolicited email. You have no way of knowing if they are legitimatet, and most are not. -|Tom|-

This forum rarely gets posted on as it is. Why would one make this forum more difficult to post on?