All, The OpenLayers Gallery and FAQ were receiving significant amounts of spam. I just went through and wrote code that will add recaptchas to any editing of the FAQ or Gallery. I'm pretty sure this will slow the spammers down significantly; recaptcha tends to be pretty good at that, in my experience.
For the technically interested, http://svn.openlayers.org/project/gallery.openlayers.org/openlayers/djangorecaptcha.py Defines a RecaptchaField that can be used in any newforms-using Django application. I don't know how much desire there would be to republish this in a different form, but it's pretty cool: makes adding recaptchas as easy as defining a single extra item on your forms.Form in Django. If this fails to capture spam, the next step is to require logins via something like OpenID, but I'm hoping that we can skip that step at least in the short term. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
