[odf-discuss] OpenDocument Makes Formatting Compliance Simpler

[Daniel Carrera]

On Fri, 2007-13-04 at 09:40 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> To be honest, even web forms are spammed now: my website doesn't have a 
> math problem to solve, or a picture to read, and I get a lot of spam via 
> the form - and I'm not running any standard website software that the 
> spammers will know :(

Web forms are very easy to spam. When I first setup a webform for The
Learning Machine, we got a a lot of spam and it was obvious that it was
just a robot entering random data in every box and clicking "submit".
Not much intelligence needed for that. If you see a web form with N
boxes, try putting your spam message in every one and random crap in the
others. After N tries you are bound to hit the box where you are
supposed to put the message.

I was surprised to find that if the math problem was the same for
everyone, the robot would soon enough enter the correct answer and start
spamming again. But if you use a random problem, spam stops.

Why don't you add a math problem to your website?

Btw, I've been trying to contact you, and I had Inge send you an email
too. Could you please send me a compiled binary of html2odf that I can
send to our sponsor? You know that our sponsor is very much not happy
with how long it took to do the project, and not receiving the software
doesn't help the situation.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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http://daniel.carrera.name/
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