[support] Many false applications for accounts

[Walt Daniels]

Yes you can prob mail providers and determine if the email is valid, but
they may lie. I believe AOL replies yes to any request, at least they used
to.


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Alison <penguin at alisoncc.com> wrote:

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> When you pay for on-line purchases via PayPal, it does a 'simulated'
> transaction for a dollar to verify the accuracy of the data entered. In
> checking the mail log for my mail server - Postfix/Dovecot, when I send
> emails there is a message from the remote server confirming the validity of
> the address.  As most registration faculties require an email address,
> would it not be difficult to do something similar to PayPal in checking
> whether the remote mail server for the email address will accept the emails
> for the address entered before processing the registration. Just a thought.
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> Alison
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> At 12:07 AM 08-04-14, you wrote:
> >I tried Honeypot, and it indeed cut down the number of false
> >applications by about 80%. I could easily put in a field that legitimate
> >users could fill in correctly, but spammers could not. But how could I
> >check this and automatically cancel applications with bad information
> >for that field?  For example, on one site for a fraternity, I asked for
> >the street address of the fraternity.
> >
> >Jim
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> >On 4/7/14, 8:00 AM, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 07:28:40 -0400
> >> From: Philip_Wetzel at nhd.uscourts.gov
> >> Subject: Re: [support] Many false applications for accounts
> >> To: support at drupal.org
> >> Cc: support-bounces at drupal.org, wdlists at gmail.com
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> >> The CAPTCHA code has been broken a number of times and they've
> >> re-engineered it.    If it's not currently effective, they'll probably
> come
> >> up
> >> with a fix.  The game goes on.
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