Are we worried about human spammers or bots? If the latter, isn't there a free tool that allows generation of those graphic security checks? (The ones with the fuzzy letters - the name escapes me at the moment). We have registration required now for edits, but we could harden the reg. process.
Blake On 8/1/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > Do we maybe need to look at other solutions, or ways of keeping spammers > from harvesting genuninx? It is such a useful tool that it's a bit of a > shame to use restriction through obscurity, a tactic that will > eventually lose strength. > > Just some thoughts. > > Rainer > > michelle olson wrote: > > >Hi Paul, > > > >You wrote: > > > >Is there a reason why there isn't a link to the genunix wiki from the > main OpenSolaris page > > > >The reason is spam. Genunix is a great resource, but the more traffic we > >push there, the more interesting it will be to would-be spammers. So, we > >should use it as a document collaboration tool, keep the focus on > >community authoring, but not publicize it too heavily, to keep it clean. > > > >When we want to collaborate with the community on projects, we should > >use the Projects on opensolaris. > > > >Thanks, > >Michelle > > > >Paul Kasper wrote: > > > > > >>After looking through the OpenSolaris main page, It appears that you can > only find a link to the genunix wiki through the documentation community, > but it appears that the wiki goes beyond just the documentation community. > >> > >>In fact, the storage team has a need to use the wiki to collaborate with > the community about upcoming projects/features. So, I know I can add to > the wiki and point to it from the storage community, but my overall > questions still stands. > >> > >>Is there a reason why there isn't a link to the genunix wiki from the > main OpenSolaris page...if it's available for all the OpenSource communities > and projects? Since blogs has its own link under the Connect section, how > about having a wiki link? > >> > >>Paul > >> > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070801/13baa147/attachment.html>
