Thomas Arthur Oehser <tom <at> Toms.NET> writes: > think there is some misunderstanding about what is being requesed. > > To me, spam prevention is trivial, as non-registered-users cannot edit. > > Preventing bots from registering in the first place is the goal. > > This problem is totally different, and not addressible by bayesian > filtering or other spam-filtering approaches. > > There are 2 approaches I would like (I want both, but either would help...) > > (1) Require a process by which "registering" puts a user into "awaiting > approval" status, sends them an email with some kind of GUID cookie, > and upon the user answering the email, moves them into "real" status. > > (2) Require a user to pass some "captcha" type test, such as recognizing > text within a complex distorted visual image, as part of registration. > > I want a registered user to (1) have a real, (and unique!) email > address, and, (2) be a human being, not a computer program.
Hi folks. As I'm sure most of you know by now, this problem is increasing dramatically in the last few weeks. Big sites like redhat (http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/RecentChanges), x.org and so on are seeing these wiki spams by auto-created users (XXXjingkeYYYY, caicaimmXX, and many others). I run a small wiki for scons.org, and we don't have the resources to despam every day. We need a captcha plug-in to prevent bot registration; we've already turned off anonymous editing but it doesn't help anymore. I looked at Russell Stuart's Email Activation, but self-activation could be trivially implemented by these bots (they have valid rDNS and everything), and the last thing we need is a human admin in the registration loop. What's wrong with recaptcha (http://recaptcha.net/)? It's a decent captcha system, and it helps scan old books (a CMU project). It has audio for the visually impaired, and has a simple two-function python API, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/recaptcha-client. Can someone at least tell me where to plug it in? It's getting past the painful point. (BTW: I'm posting this via gmane, and it's making me solve a captcha just to post this.) Please reply to me at garyo at genarts dot com as well as to the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
