[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

Neil Herber (nospam) nospam at eton.ca
Sat Jan 12 21:40:39 CST 2008


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:46:48AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote:
>> After I installed "plain sight" passwords (revealed in a GroupHeader) 
>> all of my spam stopped.
>>
>> See an example at: http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/index.php/Guest/Passwords
> 
> I think this works for many typical sites, because people aren't
> likely to confuse the "here's the password for the site" as being
> the default configuration for PmWiki.  But the pmwiki.org site
> is the pre-eminent demo of the software, and so what people see
> on pmwiki.org is kinda what they expect for PmWiki.
> 
> Pm
> 

Excellent point, Patrick.

I really like your text-only Captcha solution and would recommend it 
over my "plain sight" header message.

-- 
Neil Herber
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