[pmwiki-users] wiki spam

Neil Herber nospam at eton.ca
Thu Aug 3 10:44:06 CDT 2006


At 2006-08-03  10:27 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>Yes, I have found that simply having an edit password on pages defeats 95%
>of all spam.  Even if the edit password is somewhere "obvious" on the site.
>
> > The edit password is displayed in the sidebar as pplai text.
>
>What's "pplai text"?
>
>Pm

It's probably the same as "lainn" text.   ;-)

Ditto on the success of passwords at defeating spam. I actually 
display the password as part of the AuthForm.


Neil Herber
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