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I had a fairly long conversation with Xe privately about this and didn't feel the need to repeat it here, especially since (as the search box will tell you) I've already talked about this before. But, do go on.

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We are not asking you to repeat the full conversation here. We just want the actual solution that was discussed.

So could you give a short elaboration on what was this "better computer science" solution that you came up with in your discussion?

I looked at your comments and there's a bunch saying that Anubis is bad CS but none I could find saying what, exactly, you want Anubis to do instead. You sure are posting a lot about how it's bad, though.

It is interesting, this particular user seems extremely active in this thread. I'm not sure if they have a bone to pick with Anubis in particular or some other reason for disliking the software so much, but to me it does seem overzealous. Regardless of if it's "bad computer science" or what, Anubis works quite well and is easy to customise to target it to specific botnets, as I've done. And this is coming from someone trying to develop her own non-PoW anti-scraper system.

You might want to note that "this particular user" is "extremely active" on this website.

(Nothing against it, I'm always happy to hear what Thomas has to say)

Apologies, you're probably right, I don't post much on HN so I don't really know the regulars.

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