{"id":1410,"date":"2007-11-21T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2008-08-17T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:23:59","slug":"pcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"PCAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Keung, author of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam<\/a> left a comment here<\/a>, letting me know that there is a new version<\/a> out that will recite the captcha as an audio file, so that vision-impaired users can still use the plugin. Nice.<\/p>\n

And this is a good time to point out how great the plugin is. Once in a while a new reader will leave a comment along the lines of “Hey! Your anti-spam thing is broken and always shows the same letters!”<\/p>\n

But it isn’t broken. It’s working as intended. My original post on the plugin<\/a> explains why the phrase is always the same. My traffic has grown quite a bit since June (although it did take a hit when DMotR ended, it’s still up from June) and I still don’t have to deal with spam. How many attempted spams do I get a day, I wonder? Hang on a second…<\/p>\n

…Okay done. I turned off PCAS for a few minutes just to see what would happen. I expected a crushing deluge of crap, but it wasn’t nearly as extreme as I expected. They came in at about one a minute. Now, this was very unscientific – spams often come in waves – but it’s probably a safe guess that I’m getting somewhere in the low thousands each day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Keung, author of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam left a comment here, letting me know that there is a new version out that will recite the captcha as an audio file, so that vision-impaired users can still use the plugin. Nice. And this is a good time to point out how great the plugin is. Once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}