On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:05, Martin McEvoy wrote:
It looks to me like the wiki is being spammed by a bot or bots
[...]
I stopped it by changing the form names to to something gibberish,
nothing standard "wpTextbox1" would be come "ZifG5ut" nonsense
basically, a good Idea is to change the form names regularly, then
you can encode the submit, preview and show pages buttons in Java
script and insert them using a function
This seems like a contrary thing to do for an organization that
advocates POSHness.
Shouldn't form names be semantically meaningful, like any other
markup? And
Javascrippling a form excludes anyone who intentionally disables
scripting for security,
never mind those folks who need to browse with a text-based browser
for accessibility
issues (I know of no text-based Javascript browsers).
I'm not saying that form obfuscation isn't effective to combat spam,
but that's not our
dogfood.
I think we'd all be more than willing to hear suggestions for spam
fighting methods that are equally effective. Or, at least, an offer to
police the recent updates page. :)
-ryan
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