[pmwiki-users] Programs should be allowed to edit pages (Was: PmWiki and Spam)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Anno wrote:

> >I don't think captchas is a proper solution as I think it is
>> _valid_ that a script/program modifies a wiki page.
>
> A wiki page, yes. But not any wiki page, and particulary not the 
> pmwiki.org wiki pages, and particularly not with the non-content it 
> does.

I could agree with you for pages in the groups PmWiki* and Cookbook, but 
not for pages in e.g. Test*.  Maybe it's enough to protect them...

At one time I had passwords on wiki.lyx.org and printed this password in 
the _dialog_ that pops up asking for the password.  Worked pretty well to 
stop spam, but some users didn't actually see the password "hint" :-)

/Christian

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