I am still not clear. Do you want folks to have to contact the administrator or someone with credentials just to read the wiki or only to post to it, or perhaps do you want one level of registration for readers and and a higher level for writers?
On Friday 24 March 2006 10:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I did understand, and suggested some direct contact with the administrator to get access. These wiki are like most databases, read-a-lot, and written-to seldom. Actual contributers need to be known entities with phone numbers, real email addresses, and have written to the list or the administrator at least once with credentials. I know how the human-readable hurtles work, but it still does not keep out the malicious. Accountablility is needed so that the damage the malicious do is not persistant (their efforts to remove content and/or place rubbish needs to be monitored by the community and then brought to the attention of the administrator). Such perpetrators would then have their access pulled as soon as it has been detected. Strong reports to their supporting organizations should also follow informing them of their associate's behavior. Other members of that organization would also become suspect. There should be consequences for bad behavior. The community operates for the good of the whole and not the ego of one. > Judging from what you just said, Chris, I don't think you quite understand > what was happening. > > The way it was when the wiki was getting spammed was that you had to > register > to post, but not to read. In order to register, you did not need to > contact > a sysop. You just entered a user name and password. The spammers were > able > to exploit that. > > Dave locked it down for a while so that in order to read or post, you had > to > contact him. That kept out the spammers. > > Folks are proposing other hurdles that could be placed between the > spammers > and the wiki to make it more difficult for them to do their dirty deed > with > minimal added effort, delay or impediment to legitimate writing. > > On Friday 24 March 2006 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Simpler is better. If you want to add to the wiki, register and select > a pass word. Whoever makes changes should be known to the group and > organization. All else can read. Also, too many attempts should be > tracked. > >> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:56, Dan wrote: >>> Have you considered other alternatives? >>> >>> Since most abusers probably run bots to do their bidding, why not try >>> using >>> "is a person there" test such as the popular "type the code that >>> appears >>> in >>> the graphic below". >> >> Thats a PIA to code up. >> >> Ruben >> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting >>> language >>> that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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