Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Wiki Account registration

As long as one is implementing a CAPTCHA, the "reCAPTCHA" [1] is my humble suggestion, I have no idea how the haskellwiki is implemented or how easy this is to implement, but I imagine it couldn't be _that_ hard. /Joe [1] http://recaptcha.net/ Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:31:49 +0100 (CET), Henning Thielemann wrote:

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How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer, but a spambot cannot? E.g. "What's Haskell's surname?"

Indeed. Disabling Wiki account registration indefinitely, and not replacing it by at least some form of automatic registration, risks allowing outsiders to think that the HaskellWiki is somehow run by some "clique," which I'm sure is not the case. Automating the process removes most of the risk of this misimpression.

Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped image of a string, as is commonly done? Then any new user who still registers and starts submitting spam can be tracked and moderated.

-- Benjamin L. Russell