Captcha added

[Pietro Speroni aka Vilfredo]

We had to add a Captcha.
Looking at the database we realised that the number of users had
started to grow tremendously, and that they all had random names, and
often the same email address with little variations (example
foofoo@gmail foo.foo@gmail foofo.o@gmail etc, which according to gmail
rules all reach the same address). When we searched for those email on
the web we reached a page that said how those were emails of well
known forum spammers. In any it looks like someone had found a way to
register in Vilfredo automatically. So we had to add a Captcha. Derek
with his usual humor noticed how this was good news. "No one bothered
to try to spam our previous project" :-).

We have also considered spamming the spammers asking them to
participate in a "what should we do against spam question". But we
just can't be bothered.

Now we are going through the last 100 people that registered and
taking away the obviously fake ones.
(i.e. random name, random email, and no activity at all).

[Ed Pastore]

On Dec 20, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Pietro Speroni aka Vilfredo wrote:

> In any it looks like someone had found a way to
> register in Vilfredo automatically. So we had to add a Captcha. Derek
> with his usual humor noticed how this was good news. "No one bothered
> to try to spam our previous project" :-).

Awesome. No joke: that really is a good sign.

[Pietro Speroni aka Vilfredo]

Indeed, we have already ordered the Champagne for the first spam
question.
Not sure if it will be "how to make it longer?" or "where to buy
medications for free?".
Strictly speaking, after all they are all open questions ;-).