Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Jonathan Aquino
PHP is great. I've been using it for the past year; I love all of the built-in functions. Try doing the following with java.util.Calendar :-) $time = strtotime('last Monday'); $time = strtotime('February 15, 2007'); See http://php.net/strtotime Jon -Original Message- From

Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Then let us take the next logical step: Instead of character recognition lets introduce *object* recognition! e.g. let the user recognize, say, an apple or a pear, or something universally recognizable. This approach has its initial drawbacks though… it’d have to be firstly implemented in en_EN

Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Larry Becker
I'm wrestling with this problem on a forum I administer that uses the PhpBB software which, unfortunately is very popular, and therefor often a target of SpamBots. The software allows you to require registration and uses the image-generated code with email confirmation. These anti-spam techniques

Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Hmmm Difficult problem to approach... One thing that comes to mind is having some sort of mechanism where an image-generated code had to be entered in order to avoid bots, spammers, whatever… This would, of course, be less convenient, but *effective*. Pedro. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I think that I can confirm that it is a problem with gmane.org. I've checked for the spammers e-mail addresses in the list of subscribers...and they are not there. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can fix this problem? I can block each e-mail address from the spammers individually, but

Re: [JPP-Devel] spam alert

2007-01-27 Thread Stefan Steiniger
jep.. and i wonder jow it works. because people sending to this list must be subscribed. But it may be that this problem is connected with our registration at gmane.org which enables sending without beeing subscribed stefan Pedro Doria Meunier wrote: > We are begin targeted by spam guys... L