On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:
I like your suggestion, but I have also seen the use of SSL as a way to deter wiki spam bots. I don't really understand why using https instead of http deters bots, it seems like the author could easily update the bot to support SSL but a friend of mine put his personal mediawiki instance behind https and it stopped all the spammers. Anyway, just a thought. I don't really know if this suggestion is appropriate for the wiki. Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
