Out of the Bloo

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

- C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Some mindless spam protection

Posted by Bill @ 10:16 pm CDT
Filed under: Nerdvana!

I have upgraded to Bloo build 8. One new feature in this build is the SimpleHumanCheck spam filter. It's mindless and probably really irritating, but I'm putting it out there as a stopgap because I'm being inundated with spam.

If you leave a comment, you will be asked a question only a human being (in theory) can answer. This is probably pretty easy to crack if some spammer wants to do so, but since I can change the questions around (heh heh) I can stay a step ahead of them.

Note my overconfident air . . . pride goes before the fall, of course. So I'll probably get swamped.

More intelligent spam filtering is coming.

G'night all!

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Comments on "Some mindless spam protection":

1. AJ - 05/23/2006 11:59 pm CDT

spam testing

2. Bill - 05/24/2006 6:26 am CDT

Heh, it seems to be working, for the moment - no spam at all last night!

Thanks for the test AJ

3. Jared - 05/24/2006 6:58 am CDT

Just wanted to answer a question to see if I'm human . . .

4. Jared - 05/24/2006 6:59 am CDT

Score!

Now let's see . . . math has never been my strong suit . . .

5. Bill - 05/24/2006 8:31 am CDT

See!? It protects me from spam and it's fun too!

Sort of.

In the near future I'll enhance it so that it only kicks in for older posts . . .

6. papa - 05/24/2006 6:48 pm CDT

Just had to try this. I guess you are the spam miester.

7. rachael - 05/24/2006 9:45 pm CDT

hey, looky! another test bloo-blog! :-) (i mean, click me)

8. scottie - 05/25/2006 7:11 pm CDT

i couldn't be left out of the fun...

my question "What is the word "golb" spelled backwards?" can i answer that golb is not a word in the english language? am i thinking too much on this one?

9. Bill - 05/25/2006 9:03 pm CDT

Scottie,

You can never think too much :-)

10. Quaid - 05/25/2006 10:38 pm CDT

uhhh . . . actually . . .

I like the question thing. It threw me for a loop because I saw it on another post before I read this one.

Hilarious

11. Bill - 05/25/2006 10:46 pm CDT

Well, I'm glad you like it :-)

Other, less invasive methods are coming. But the question is completely working, so far. Not one spam since I put it in.

12. Bill - 05/26/2006 11:55 pm CDT

I put in another incremental version of build 8 last night, and promptly hosed both the comments and my spam protection. Got inundated again. But I'm back to good.

13. Guess - 05/28/2006 7:47 pm CDT

You have wonderful kids.

14. Bill - 05/28/2006 9:58 pm CDT

Thanks

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