NationStates Jolt Archive

I received a telegram 7 days ago from deaddune (I retained it so if one of the mods wants to take a look at it, feel free to)

I read the telegram the day after deaddune had sent it and they were showing up as a dead nation so I couldn't click on their name to find out anything about them.

I'm just curious about him since the telegram appeared to be rather innocuous and it sounded as if he knew me through NS even though I didn't remember who he was.

He doesn't know you. He was an advertising bot that got into the game. We strongly advise against going to that website as we've heard reports that it has viruses.

He doesn't know you. He was an advertising bot that got into the game. We strongly advise against going to that website as we've heard reports that it has viruses.

I wonder if NS has any anti-bot stuff built in. I know places like hotmail have that picture that you have to read and type what you see (something like CS6FH4 that's on the picture in odd shapes or whatnot) to prevent bots from coming in. Since you're the coder, would it be possible to create a system where when registering, NS's potential members would have to do a similar thing?

https://registernet.passport.net/hip.srf?ns=hotmail.com&int=reg

It's called a CAPTCHA and I'm looking into options.

It's called a CAPTCHA and I'm looking into options.

Well that's good. Always one step ahead of me, eh?