Paul Wise <[email protected]> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:28 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > > > This is a bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678540 > > I agree, reCaptcha is suboptimal but the alternative is for the wiki > team (1.5 persons) to revert lots of spam daily instead of one or two > per week. If you have an anti-spam mechanism that is as effective as > reCaptcha then we would love to hear about it.
This is topic-drift, so only a short reply: reCaptcha is not "an anti-spam mechanism". It does nothing to test whether a submission is spam or a submitter is a spammer. It is merely a physical ability test that is failed by a group which includes most spam robots and some software-assisted humans. It works a bit, but is evil. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/DealingWithSpam doesn't look current, so I don't know what anti-spam mechanisms are actually installed, but things like rate limits and a moderation queue may help. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
