Hi Clayton, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
> An earlier discussion raised the possibility of using a CAPCHA to limit > spambots from creating random accounts and inserting Spam on the OOoWiki. > > Currently we do not have an overwhelming problem with Spam - but we are > not immune to it. For example, a significant portion of the ~22,000 > unused user accounts are spam/bot generated. > > A possible CAPCHA solution would be: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA > This can be tuned, for example, to only require CAPCHAs for new user > account creation. > > Thoughts or comments? Do we want to implement a CAPCHA on the OOoWiki? > Is this a good idea? Maybe the following discussion could be interesting (and funny ;-)) for you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/practical-non-image-based-captcha-approaches Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
