[rt-users] wiki.bestpractical.com spam problem

[Bruce Campbell]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Jesse Vincent wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:41:38AM -0400, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
> > > Is there any way to further reduce the amount of spam that is
> > > ending up in the wiki?
> > [...]
> > > Just tonight I reverted back 12 pages. Is there anything that can be
> > > done?
> >
> >   What about requiring that users who edit pages be logged into the
> > Wiki?
>
> It won't help. Our spammers are actual humans. They ddn't slow down when
> we tried Captcha "security images"

In most Wikis, you can restrict edits to a set of 'known' users.  Addition
to this set of users is done on a vouching system.  This cuts most
update'n'run spams, but not the bad apples.

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Bruce.