On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:55:28PM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: > See http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2010-August/001479.html > > We started using OpenID exclusively at Sugar Labs wiki and have not had any > of this spam since.
If true and easy anonymity is important, the Captcha systems used on MediaWiki seem to help. I've heard of them being defeated occasionally, but it's generally an improvement: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha If we could stop the bleeding, I'd feel a lot more heartened about going in and doing the clean-up on the accounts and pages that are clearly spambots. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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