Re: projecthoneypot

Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote: >> this whole Honey Pot thing seems to be a major pain for quite a few of >> our users. Maybe it's time to look for alternatives with less aggressive >> / more sophisticated blacklisting? Or just drop the whole thing >> altogether and live with occasional spam. It's not that I was *that* >> bad before we started employing Project Honey Pot, isn't it? > > That is possible yeah - You may go ahead and implement something better. You sound a bit offended. If you are, please be assured that this wasn't my intention. > We were getting quite the amount of spam accounts getting through to > our system, only reason why you don't see it now is that the account > listing now only show pear.dev people :-) So essentially the spammers were circumventing the CAPTCHA mechanism? > Tho I must say - the honeypot project isn't all that bad + we are only > stopping off people that have been listed as a spammer and with > activity during the last 30 days, maybe that is still too high, dunno. My position with regard to Honey Pot stems from the fact that Boris' complaint wasn't the first on the various PEAR lists in the recent weeks. Most of the time they came from people who wanted to submit bug reports -- loosing bug reports because people were wrongly blocked by black lists sounds like a major drawback to me. - Martin