It looks like anonymous editting was allowed for a bit. Not positive though.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alessandro Di Giuseppe <a_di_giuse...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sounds reasonable, but if accounts are indeed manually created, how is spam > getting into the wiki then? > ________________________________ > From: Chris Buechler <cbuech...@gmail.com> > To: ossec-list@googlegroups.com > Sent: Fri, May 7, 2010 7:39:41 PM > Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Re: Comprehensive manual - or - something > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Alessandro Di Giuseppe > <a_di_giuse...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Re: Watch for spam and or defacement >> Can't a CAPTCHA be implemented to prevent spambot from posting? >> > > That's not nearly as effective as you might think, speaking from > experience with involvement in other popular open source projects. > After wasting entirely too much time cleaning up spam, I switched the > sites I manage to only allow administrators to create of wiki > accounts, as captchas only greatly reduced the spam (still leaving way > too much to deal with, vs. the number of legit accounts that needed to > be created). Manually creating the accounts, even several dozen a > year, takes far less time than fighting spam. I believe OSSEC has used > the same process from day one, as I recall having to email dcid to get > my wiki account activated. Unless you have a site that's going to be > edited by huge numbers of people like Wikipedia or something, it's > just easier that way unfortunately. > >
