From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:23:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] the current situation for the KJ wiki Message-Id: <20070201092326.08fc4b9c.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> List-Id: References: <20070131135158.7c4fdffc.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20070131135158.7c4fdffc.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 04:16:39 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jaco Kroon wrote: > > > Correct, but in many cases OCR software can decipher them, and when > > that isn't simple enough a human spammer can solve them at around a > > captcha every 5 seconds, stil allowing a spammer to do about 20 > > posts per minute, permitting he's willing to sit there the whole day > > and solve captchas. Or man-in-the-middle if he can construct a > > "popular" site on which to represent the captchas to other people to > > solve. > > what about making the wiki *not* world-writable, in the sense of not > even allowing arbitrary people to register for accounts before they > start editing? > > i realize that (sort of) defeats the purpose of a wiki but, really, > how many people plan on doing editing anyway? the current ToDo list > is *totally* immutable. perhaps we can find a middle ground where, if > you have a *legitimate* need to edit the wiki -- perhaps because > you're taking on a project -- then someone with the authority will > arrange for you to get an account. You are supposed to be able to edit the wiki at http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo just by registering there as a user... Does that not work? ... yes, just register and login, then edit away. > it's not perfect, but it *would* stop the spammers, wouldn't it? --- ~Randy _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors