[wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii site

[Jonathan]

there are also spam detection mechanisms on wikis
(afaik moinmoin can use captchas
and has a spam engine which can be enabled and/or installed as a plugin)


My 2 Cents
John




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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Alexander List <alex at list.priv.at> wrote:

> Vickram Crishna wrote:
> > Quite right. Naturally, this increases the workload for the sysop, for
> > which the only solution, imo, is to increase the number of sysops,
> > with enough volunteers (3-5 is a good number) that one or the other
> > takes care of it in time.
>
> What about only allowing authenticated users to sign up/post, and to use
> captchas to get rid of those bots?
>
> Alex
>
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