On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:09:28PM -0400, Eric Brackenbury wrote: > Hi Brenda > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Brenda J. Butler <bjb [ at ] linuxbutler [ dot ] ca>wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:30:03PM -0400, Eric Brackenbury wrote: > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > I know this is not a Linux specific question but if anyone can help :-)) > > > > > > OK so I moderate a Yahoo group and lately there has been a person who > > just > > > uses a new email address every time they get banned. > > > > Is this an automated spammer, or a manual one? > > > How do I tell? They spam faster than you can clean. And they can't answer captcha questions correctly. > If automated, > > you might have success with requiring that posters decipher > > a captcha image for each new post. > > > > So whats a captcha image, sorry I am not up to speed on this stuff It's a picture of a distorted word. People who want to post to your site have to type in the word. The word is distorted in such a way that optical character recognition on the word will produce the wrong word, or no word. It's a way of telling whether a real person is responding to your web page. See: http://xkcd.net/632 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha I haven't run any Yahoo groups, so I don't really know how you would do this with a Yahoo group, sorry. > > If not, then perhaps go to moderated posts for a while. > > > > Yes could do especially this time of year with lower group activity. > Thanks Good luck ... bjb