[kh99]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

I've pointed this out before - programming around this mod is very tricky and self defeating for a botnet admin. First of all there's no way to guess the settings site to site. There's minimum and maximum time, false fields and all. So, let's say you have 2 million attempts a day with your botnet, what do you program the delay for?

Every second you are adding takes attempts away. And no one is going to trouble themselves to program this, site to site. They would simply move on to easier targets that don't have these checks.

Yeah, we have had this discussion before, and I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Well, I will agree that they're not going to bother with a relative few sites when most of them don't have this protection, because that's the point I was making.

I'm an old guy who's been a programmer (both professionally and for fun) all my life, and I don't see this as being a major problem. But I have to admit that I have no experience with spambots, much less seeing the code of any of them, so maybe there's something I don't understand. What kind of experience do you have with them?

ETA: Oh, I should have mentioned, this mod doesn't actually have false fields. That is something that someone mentioned way back on the first page, I think, but I never did add it. But when you talk about programming bots, that seems like a more difficult problem than the time delay.