Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > 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
An interesting alternative to Captcha? http://www.digg.com/programming/Preventing_SPAM_without_using_a_CAPTCHA _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
