{"id":57,"date":"2004-12-05T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=57"},"modified":"2004-12-05T05:03:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T05:03:24","slug":"cant-add-cant-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Add, Can&#8217;t Post!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2004\/12\/01.html#a1124\">following link<\/a> from Jon Udell about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captcha.net\">CAPTCHA<\/a> <i>(Computer Automated Public Turing test to tell  Computers &#038; Humans apart)<\/i> preventing blog spam. This is a really (should that be raelly) tasty idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raelity.org\/\">Rael Dornfest.<\/a> It can be summed up as <b>can&#8217;t add, can&#8217;t post<\/b>. He uses the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\/input\/writeback.htm\">Blosxom Writeback function<\/a> which provides weblog comments with write-backs. An arithmetic sum is embedded in the writeback and no commets are allowed unless the answer is posted correctly. An example of this is<br \/>\n<code>5 + 2 = <input name=\"z\" size=\"15\"\/><\/code><br \/>\nNeatly sidestepping more general blog spambots. The numbers are generated randomly. A <b>definite improvement<\/b> would be image obfuscation (a la Captcha!) and a bigger range.. He currently only uses 0-9 meaning a 1 in 20 chance you&#8217;re gonna get the right number. I&#8217;m not sure I want to encourage blogspammers to brute force my site, especially when a post is so tantalisingly close<br \/>\nI&#8217;m working on my own interesting weapon in the battle against blogspam.  It currently has the catchy title of <b>blogassasin<\/b> <i>(Apologies to jmason &#038; the rest of the spamassasin team)<\/i>. Also, it doesn&#8217;t kill blogs but early versions come close. Active blacklist generation is another tidy feature. So spammers should think before thy HTTPiss Off innocent bloggers. Personally I don&#8217;t believe that my blog <i>(or anyone else&#8217;s for that matter)<\/i> needs to become any less relevant or increasingly grbled. So let&#8217;s say NO to blogspam \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up the following link from Jon Udell about the CAPTCHA (Computer Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers &#038; Humans apart) preventing blog spam. This is a really (should that be raelly) tasty idea from Rael Dornfest. It can be summed up as can&#8217;t add, can&#8217;t post. He uses the Blosxom Writeback function which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}