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by andr 2554 days ago
What if you required 7 hours for a listing to go live?
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The Maps folks played (and are almost certainly still playing) this game of cat and mouse with the spammers. Google comes up with better defenses, and the spammers come up with cleverer spam. I just found the cron job iteration of that cycle particularly memorable and amusing. I don't want to share anything else because I'm sure they still use some of the strategies they used back then, and it's better not to publicize them.