There are very few categories of people who I would line up against a wall and have shot...

[jducoeur]

... but Russian spammers have managed to make their way into that list.

I just discovered that the Rolls Ethereal have been vandalized -- utterly, meticulously and very intentionally destroyed -- by a spammer. Special. Not going to be simple to recover, either, since the bad data is interleaved with the good in the logs. In theory, I can fix this; in practice, it hasn't been done before, and some of the tools I need don't exist yet (I added the logging facility a long time ago, but not the tool to recover from the logs), so a bunch of time that was going to be spent on wiki-tech instead has to be spent on the Rolls. What fun.

Anybody know a good captcha package for Perl that I can drop in here?

Comments

[laurion]

Not readily available for perl, but you want to drop in http://www.kittenauth.com/

*grin*

[jducoeur]

Oh, that's delightful. Moreover, it might even be modestly effective, if the database of pictures and categories is large enough. (But like captchas, it appears to have serious accessibility problems...)

Accessibility

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I suspect you'd need to have an alternative approach for accessibilty; maybe something like an A:B :: C : ? test.