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MaaMaw: A question about your automated spam problem

Posted By: Mr Bluto ^_^
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, at 11:20 p.m.

MaaMaw,

I'm not meaning to be rude or anything negative like that. I'm merely curious so I want to ask you...

Why do you choose to manually fight the automated spam posts on FIB when you could very easily and quite inexpensively fight it automatically, therefore freeing your mind and your time up for those tasks that will actually bring you more money than you make now?

I just can't seem to understand why a person like yourself, who has said on more than one occasion fairly recently that you really need to make more money, would want to waste your time on this time consuming (and therefore money sucking) problem.

And yes, I know you can't stop the spam that is not automated, but that's life. It happens to every forum. Some are intentional, some are not. Either way, they need to be dealt with manually. But these are a very small percentage of all the spam posted here on FIB.

I think I remember you saying a few days back that you'd use a captcha(sp?) script but the only one you know of used those squiggly, sometimes hard to read, verification letter images. I have to admit, personally I don't prefer the squiggly ones either, but really, it works and people use them with no problem all the time everywhere. The non-squiggly ones are actually not as secure as the squiggly ones. The reason they use the squiggly ones is because they are more secure. There are scripts (I am told) that can actually read the captcha images when they are not squiggly or obscured (like paypal's method - paypal used regular, non-squiggly letters with lines drawn all over the images to make it harder for scripts to read).

But at any rate, personally, I fail to see how such a really unimportant little thing like squiggly capcha letters stops you from using a script that would free your time up for better things which you need to focus on.

Is it that you don't value your time?

Is it a fear of something? Fear of what? (other than the squiggly letters)

I just don't get it (which leads me to believe that you have a fear of something).

^_^

BTW, if money's the issue, I'm sure it can't cost more than $100 to get a good capcha script. Maybe you could ask people to send a donation via payal (just a couple bucks)? If you get half the money, that's a good deal. (I admit, I kinda feel funny suggesting this because I personally cannot even afford a dollar right now as I'm not doing very well financially these days because of some medical bills I incurred a coupla months ago, I don't make much money on the net presently and I only have a part time job right now...so you didn't hear this suggestion from me ;)).

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