I have to say that I'm personally against blanket blocking. Domain based
or whatever.
I have been on the other side of this and I was very frustrated to find
my whole domain blocked because of a few idiots.
I know it's more work for administrators to find better solutions, but I
think it's only fair that everyone be given an opportunity to be treated
as innocent until proven guilty.

That said, I know that James is probably already way overworked and
donating more of his free time than he'd like to maintain this list.
In that regard I'd like to suggest that perhaps those of us with the
skills to do so donate our time to finding and implementing a better
solution to the problem.
As a matter of putting my money where my mouth is, I offer to help
however I can.

I think the first thing we need is a complete description of the
problem. This includes a description of the applications and software
already used as well as a description of the current data flow and
processes involved in that flow.
If James can get this together, I think we can tackle the problem and
solve it in short order.

Note that I would suggest that we stick to solutions that won't cost any
money.

James Newton, Host wrote:
>> Just a suggestion, but how about using a Turing image type 
>> thing for all entries? Or are these humans adding the spam messages?
>>
>>     
>
> That might block some, but based on what I can see of the user agent, etc..
> The ones in chi/kor are humans. The machines run in the .us or .ru.
>
> And the more I've thought about it, it strikes me that I can't remember
> anyone from chi/kor ever posting something GOOD to the site. But I do know
> that I have decided not to post things to other peoples wiki/blogs based on
> the presence of a  captcha thing. That is another entire discussion, which
> would be interesting.
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