On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: > Is it time to consider a new approach to dealing with spam bots > posting on pmwiki.org? There seems to be more spam than ever before > with fewer patterns in terms of ip addresses.
Since it appears that much of the spam is being posted without author names, I've set $EnablePostAuthorRequired on pmwiki.org for all of the groups except Main. This should block spam posts that aren't providing author names. > Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? Possibly, but I'm not sure I'm quite ready to do that. One of my goals is to try to keep pmwiki.org as similar as possible to what someone encounters when installing PmWiki for the first time. So, if we enable captchas on pmwiki.org, then that would seem to argue that we should have captchas built-in to the distribution (and possibly enabled by default). That's a bit bigger change than what I'm wanting at this point. Another stopgap measure (suggested by Crisses) may be to try using a honeypot on pmwiki.org to trap spam. But I'm not sure that a honeypot would have much effect on the current bout of spam that we're seeing. Other suggestions and comments are very welcome. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
