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question.. does bots come quipped with a user-agent.. since it is not assigned one by the registry like IE or Mozilla is? If not, then the lack of one could be an identifying mark and one could make a check point for that alone and stop all bots if not most.
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P.s. Check this:
1. Blind :: Seperate page for text based ONLY, compliant with reader
2. Deaf :: Seperate page for text based ONLY, compliant with reader
3. Ampatee :: Nothing should be done, can enlarge display
4. Mentally handicap :: Nothing should be done, needs shaparone
So again, a seperate .txt file for all pages textual content should be effiecient.
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P.s. Check this:
1. Blind :: Seperate page for text based ONLY, compliant with reader
2. Deaf :: Seperate page for text based ONLY, compliant with reader
3. Ampatee :: Nothing should be done, can enlarge display
4. Mentally handicap :: Nothing should be done, needs shaparone
So again, a seperate .txt file for all pages textual content should be effiecient.
shisam.. here we go feyd, this should take care of ALL bots forever. Simply include a checkbox at the bottom of the posting form along with disable smilies, etc.. make it's value on the form say something like: 'If you are NOT a bot check this box', make some error checking for forgetful users and bots that wont know to tick the checkbox, which will halt the posting process and thus will eliminate all spams made by bots for good, or until they wise up.
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oh the madness 

wait a second, whats the stop the bot from ticking the checkmark?shisam.. here we go feyd, this should take care of ALL bots forever. Simply include a checkbox at the bottom of the posting form along with disable smilies, etc.. make it's value on the form say something like: 'If you are NOT a bot check this box', make some error checking for forgetful users and bots that wont know to tick the checkbox, which will halt the posting process and thus will eliminate all spams made by bots for good, or until they wise up.
well they would have to hard code that in, which would mean more work for the drones and as far as i can tell spammers are lazy as hell.. but other than pure laziness, I suppose nothing would keep them from ticking the box.. however, introducing a new format would by you the time to think of something more permanent.. and could perhaps sway a percentage of spammers from even attempting to utilise this forum or any forum as a depo for spam.. 
what do you mean the captcha thing or the using one key at both ends thing? I would say between the two that the captcha concept would prove to be more secure, especially since brute-force can be taking advantage of in the case of supplying a valid constant string. But then again, I haven't seen a PoC concerning the hash concept you said you implemented on your own site, until I see it I can only assume it is less secure.
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EDIT: One way to prevent from advertising to spammers is to remove these lines from index.php
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EDIT: One way to prevent from advertising to spammers is to remove these lines from index.php
indeed impressive but if I were a spammer those three lines would suggest to me a great place to point my bot and I even get an approximate day and time too.. I think that a number of things will be done to beat the bots and I think that removing advertisements such as those above is a progressive move.index.php wrote: Our users have posted a total of 150481 articles
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