+++ Peter Vandenabeele [05-01-05 22:21 +0100]: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:48:13PM -0800, Allen Curtis wrote: > > >>The Wiki will be install today. I am looking forward to watching the > > >>site grow. ;-) > > > > > >How will you protect it from spam ? I have seen horrible things > > >happen to a local community wiki here. > > > > Spam postings to the site? > > Yes. When you leave a traditional wiki open and publish the address, > terrible things happen (the whole site and all the content are overtaken > by page long descriptions of all kind of products you don't want).
This is not always true. I run a public wiki that has not seen any spam in about 2 years (balloonboard.org), and I haven't noted spamming on any of other public wikis I use. But I imagine it is a growing problem. I'd prefer to keep the wiki open to start with, and only close it if we have to. I suppose a simple email registration scheme would not be too much of a problem. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
