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it amounts to a Distributed Spam Attack that requires considerable effort to repel. I'm not sure there are too many sites with the talent necessary to beat this crap back.

IMHO if it had not been for someone we'd probably still be working in shifts. Well, probably with ceebs and linca we'd have been able to come up with a technical patch but I suspect it would have taken much longer.

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 04:39:54 PM EST
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No CAPTCHA plugins for Scoop? They seem to defeat most spam, as far as I can tell by the blogs that use them.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 04:42:25 PM EST
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I don't know, but someone wrote a captcha patch from scratch.

The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:03:14 PM EST
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I'll be damned.

If someone's in Paris, I'll buy her a beer.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 05:16:25 PM EST
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Not sure there's much in the way of Scoop plug-ins - of any kind.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 11:00:03 AM EST
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