[racket-dev] spam bug reports

This is the PLaneT bug reports, not the drracket bug reports.

I'm loathe to restrict that to people that login, but maybe it is time for that.

Robby

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Captcha that requires a very tiny amount of Racket/Scheme/Lisp knowledge or
> access to a working Racket/Scheme interpreter might work.  Example
> challenges:
>
> (+ 1 2)
> (+ 1 (* 2 3))
> (apply + (cons 1 (cons 2 '()))
> (string-append "x" "y")
>
> If spammers want to spend time on this, hey, maybe they'll get interested in
> Racket and become productive members of society. :)
>
> Or get rid of the Web page interface for submitting a bug report, and limit
> to just the DrRacket form and email address for people who don't want to
> submit via DrRacket.  Let email filters worry about the email address one,
> and have DrRacket use security-through-obscurity in what URL it submits to
> (or uses a hidden form field with "hi" in it or something).
>
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