Cellphone promoters here = spambots?

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Cellphone promoters here = spambots?

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Are these cellphone promoters in the forums here spambots? If so, how are they getting through our Olympus system?
hmm....

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Humans, not bots. Try as you might, you can't stop a human from reading a captcha. ;)

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NeoThermic wrote: Humans, not bots. Try as you might, you can't stop a human from reading a captcha. ;)

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You can, just turn up all the options to full. There are some issues with such a policy that I am failing to mention.
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Lastof wrote: There are some issues with such a policy that I am failing to mention.


haha. of course!

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I spect it wont belong before bots learn how to defeat the new CAPTCHA

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Probably not, but then phpBB will just release a new one... That's the way the world goes round, and round, and round, and round!

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So far, there's been only one spambot that has managed to register and post more then a few messages :mrgreen:

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spambot wrote: So far, there's been only one spambot that has managed to register and post more then a few messages :mrgreen:

As soon as they can I'm sure they'll block the pesky blighter :)

I'm still convinced you are a bot. A helpful one I'll grant you.

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spambot wrote: So far, there's been only one spambot that has managed to register and post more then a few messages :mrgreen:
So what do we do to spambot nowdays?
hmm....

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It would be interesting to make a forum bot, that went around responding to forum questions in the level of detail as spambot does... Only problem is he's a little too human to be a bot :P

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