[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:15:28AM -0600, Randy wrote:
> I don't understand the problem with displaying a password on  
> Site.EditForm. Doesn't that stop robots? If robots can extract the  
> password automatically, it's easy to e*n*c*o*d*e it in plain sight.  
> That seems friendlier than captcha, which can be hard to read.

For a demonstration of PmWiki's captcha display (and its readability), 
see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Captcha .  And it's also
possible to generate text-only captchas, which are at least
as effective as displaying a password on Site.EditForm -- actually
more effective, since the captcha value will change for each
new session.

Pm