On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:06:58AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > >The best questions will be the ones everybody can answer, and most robots > >cannot. > > Are the robots capable of correctly parsing the question? Is there a way > to restrict wiki postings to subscribers of the mail list? I ask out of > ignorance. I've made use of application-specific wikis and have not seen > messages on the associated mail lists of wiki spam, so I'm curious why this > one is different.
Someday there may be a robot capable of parsing the questions, but the robots are not customized or sophisticated; for now they just quit and move on. I thought of an easier way to fool robots, and doesn't require much special knowledge, just the ability to parse english, for example: What word tungsten doesn't belong in this sentence? If the robots (or the humans programming them) figure out the answers to a set of questions, we just replace them. This is an arms race we can win, unless somebody wants to spend a more time breaking into our wiki than we spend defending it. Once the wiki is defendable, we can start putting the main page information on it, presentation announcements, etc., and the overworked maintainers won't have to. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
