[Imc-tech] Temporarily Shutting Down Comments?

[Zachary C. Miller]

The only real solution to the spamming is to implement captchas (the
little graphical number thing that some human has to read and enter). 

Does anyone know if there is Dada support for captchas? 

(Mike, I've been putting off the research effort to block the spam
because I haven't had the time to track down the URLs of the incoming
spam. If you could email me the URLs of some example spam messages I
can check the logs to see if there's anything easy to block.)

Mike Lehman wrote:
> Having dealt with ever-increasing amounts of poker spam and having made 
> several appeals for aid on this issue and having appealed to Steering 
> for the authority to log and block this abuse, yet not having any action 
> taken, I want to propose shutting down the Comment portion of the 
> website temporarily to see if this will disrupt the spamming of poker 
> offers to it.
> 
> I realize this is a drastic step, but I (or anyone else, for that 
> matter) really can't afford to spend a half hour or more every morning 
> deleting hundreds of these items in order for the editing screen to be 
> useful. Until a better technical fix is available in the form of a 
> software update or the previously authorized blocking of the source IPs 
> can be attempted as a solution (which, AFAIK, was never actually carried 
> through, even though it has been specifically authorized in this case), 
> this seems to be one last thing that might be tried.
> 
> I am open to other ideas, ANY ideas, but I do not think that allowing 
> the site to be taken over as an advertising medium is at all consistent 
> with Indymedia principles. It has reached this point -- where drastic 
> action is required.
> Mike Lehman
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