[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by apleschu

I am certain for now this is precisely what happens, until there are enough sites where they are starting to investigate why they no longer can register as they 'used to'. The whole spam, anti spam is after all a whack a mole game. It was that for many years and will be for many years to come. So basically a fair assumption is that over time spambots will learn that it is much more effective to wait for 'x' seconds and then send the registration screen back. That would be a simple change in the spambot and over time they will do that. Its just a question when, not if.

It is not a "simple change."

Using timers for well over three years and studying bot behavior carefully, I have seen no evidence adjustments are made for timers.

Think about it - first you as a XRumer programmer have to know there is a timer. Then you have to know there is a minimum and a maximum setting. Then you have to guess the setting, site to site. Impossible. And not even doable, since you are dealing with 10s of 1000s of sites you are hitting. There's also nothing in XRumer that tracks failed registration attempts anyway.

It won't happen, because they are hitting 1000s of sites all at the same time, and individual results don't draw any attention - it's like fishing with a big seining net. Automation, bulk and speed are all that matters.

It's easy to think you're personally being targeted and studied, but you're not. You're just one in the many 1000s.

Conventional "wisdom" says the spammers are all powerful, all-talented, smarter than us gods of some sort, who will always figure a way around any hindrance we dummies out here might devise. And it just ain't so.