[sent to the list as well this time] On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:26 -0300, Maurício wrote: > > I'm hearing reports of people having difficulty obtaining accounts on > > the Haskell wiki, without which it is impossible to make edits. > > Currently, account creation is disabled as an anti-spam measure, and the > > idea is for people to mail the admin and request an account. (...) > > Maybe OpenID could help with spam problems without > the need for manual intervention: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
I doubt it - I know LiveJournal has a problem with spambots gaining free accounts, and it provides OpenID. They may not be exploited for the OpenID account yet, but I imagine they will be sooner rather than later - OpenID is more useful to tie in people's existing identities. -- Philippa Cowderoy <fli...@flippac.org> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
