On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:51 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you >> get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete. So >> far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the >> mediawiki admin tools ("delete", "protect", "watch", etc.) I am >> pretty sure that is how it is done on wikipedia. > > not being a very active wikipedia user, i nevertheless seem to > remember > that they use captchas (yes indeed) for verification if (and only > if- i > think) you are adding URLs to a page. > this makes spamming sites much less attractive. > > i know that you are opposed to captchas, but i still think it is a > good > compromise between not having to create accounts and a reasonable > protection against spam.
Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. I think it is hard to argue with wikipedia's practice. .hc > > > fgmadsr > IOhannes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- "It is convenient to imagine a power beyond us because that means we don't have to examine our own lives.", from "The Idols of Environmentalism", by Curtis White _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list