[Ruby] [ANN] impostor 0.0.1 Released

[Mike Mondragon]

On 2/8/08, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:54 , Mike Mondragon wrote:
>
> > Makes automatic posts to the following forum applications:
> >
> > * Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 7.9
> > * Web Wiz Forums (WWF) 8.0
> > * PHP Bullitin Board (phpBB) 2.0 (2.0.22)
>
> Isn't this just going to be used by spammers?
>

Thats an interesting consideration that I had not thought of before.
I wrote it to be used in a queue that processes and then posts
cellphone images to some private skateboard forums in Seattle.  In
those cases it is acting as a user of the forum with login credentials
and is subjected to the spam controls that WWF and phpBB have in
place.  It is a feature of the library to a raise meaningful exception
when it encounters spam/throttling conditions so that an application
can be written to recover from such a situation and not loose any
information that is to be posted.