Hi Björnke, the business with email harvesting and nasty links are of those business models I know. But just entering a stupid (probably not working) email address into my newsletter database or entering senseless entries (without links) in blogs or guest books - I can't see any sense. Are these "collateral damages" of their bots or do you see any model of value they take out of these entries? Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Björnke von Gierke > Gesendet: Montag, 7. März 2011 15:39 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: OT: On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA) > > They make a lot of money. Normally there's some url hidden in the crap, and if > people go there they make 2 cents from google adverts. If they spam 2 million > per day, and the turnaround is 0.1 percent, then they get a good income. > Sometimes they also harvest email replies, and working email addresses can > also be sold to other spammers and scammers for about 5-10 cent per piece. > > > > On 7 Mar 2011, at 12:05, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > > Hi, > > what I would like to know is what intention do have bots (the humans behind > > the bots) to make useless entries into blogs or - in my case - in signing > > on to get a newsletter with non existent nonsense email addresses. The only > > sense in that behavior I can think of is that there must be any kind of > > forms where robots _do_ have any advantage from and all the other entries > > (like in my newsletter) are just "collateral damages" > > But up to now I couldn't imagine any sense behind that and couldn't find > > anyone who could tell me. But I am sure you can! > > Tiemo > > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >> Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > >> boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Keith Clarke > >> Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. März 2011 21:39 > >> An: How to use LiveCode > >> Betreff: Re: On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA) > >> > >> ...I concur, what great ideas: > >> a) language-independent, random simple maths questions that humans need to > >> understand; > >> b) deliberate hidden password field to capture bots; > >> c) obscure names for login fields to confuse bots; > >> d) simple validation repeat fields. > >> > >> I've learned so much about programming and logic from the creative bunch > > of > >> people on this list! > >> Best, > >> Keith.. > >> > >> On 6 Mar 2011, at 13:54, Medard wrote: > >> > >>> Medard <liste.r...@medard.on-rev.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> What are your thoughts about that? > >>> > >>> Thank you for all your responses! > >>> > >>> Me too, i dislike Captchas, and I am glad of your suggestions! > >>> > >>> Medard > >>> > >>> -- > >>> lectures.medard.on-rev.com > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription > >> preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription > >> preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
