[pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Oct 16 19:59:24 CDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:41:29PM -0400, drew wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote:
> >> Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe?
> > 
> > Another stopgap measure (suggested by Crisses) may be to try using
> > a honeypot on pmwiki.org to trap spam.  But I'm not sure that a honeypot
> > would have much effect on the current bout of spam that we're
> > seeing.
> 
> An interesting alternative to Captcha?
>    http://www.digg.com/programming/Preventing_SPAM_without_using_a_CAPTCHA

This is actually what we mean by "honeypot" -- it's a false input
field that is invisible to humans (and therefore not triggered) but
is often triggered by unintelligent spam robots.

Thanks,

Pm



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