On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:41:29PM -0400, drew wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: > >> Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? > > > > 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. > > An interesting alternative to Captcha? > http://www.digg.com/programming/Preventing_SPAM_without_using_a_CAPTCHA
This is actually what we mean by "honeypot" -- it's a false input field that is invisible to humans (and therefore not triggered) but is often triggered by unintelligent spam robots. Thanks, Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
