Newfie wrote:Cog,
The site has been under attack for a while. I can’t speak to the various protective techniques because I don’t have that technical knowledge. What happens is that the spammers keep adapting so the protective measures need to keep changing. It’s a tiresome game. What you see is just the latest iteration.
I think I'm for bringing back old time punishments like time in the stocks for serial malicious spammers, when they're convicted.
Maybe films of such folks being pelted with rotten cabbages, etc. for several hours might convince such folks to take up new hobbies/employment.
But I know, there I go again being all impolitic again. And I know, if it's Russian spammers, the US can't punish them.
The world, just like the economy, is a very mixed bag, re good and bad points, IMO.