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Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Thanks, Jaz The idea is to use a form of Turing Test to distinguish humans for Web robots, called captchas (completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart). Gimpy, one on these captchas, selects a word from a dictionary and mangles its image in a way that is obvious to humans to interpret but confuses a machine. Yahoo! began using Gimpy last year to block bots from creating email accounts. This month, Hotmail plans to introduce a similar system, according to wire reports. | ||
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| #1 By 8589 (66.169.175.34) at 12/28/2002 12:50:15 PM |
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The best way to handle this is to prosecute those that write SPAM programs, and those that they are SPAMMING for. I mean take their computers, and bash them into small pieces, and flog the owners ---- or ------ at least fine them to the point they won't do it again. LOL
Second offense, cut off their hands and poke out their eyes. <VBG> |
| #2 By 5444 (67.1.36.215) at 12/28/2002 6:01:46 PM |
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hmm,
One thing that the discussion is talking about is that Hotmail or yahoo blocks incoming spam. It is talking about automatic web bots that create fake hotmail and yahoo accounts to send spam. and generally would do so in groups of hundreds of hotmail and yahoo accounts. I have notice a Great deal of drop off in recent Yahoo accounts used as spam accounts. if hotmail can at least stem some of that then the so much the better. el |
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