Hi, I'm involved with the management of a range of sites and we find that even requiring registration and an email address doesn't necessarily cut out all spam. You might also want to consider something like Mollom (http://mollom.com) - it's free for small community sites, and developed by the originator of Drupal. Best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis - open-source intermedia system for live creative play - http://code.google.com/p/praxis OpenEye - specialist web solutions for the cultural, education, charitable and local government sectors - http://openeye.info On 17 July 2012 17:54, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > http://wiki.linuxaudio.org is seeing an increasing amount of SPAM. > > For a while it has been sufficient to [fail2]ban IP addresses that > incorrectly guess CAPTCHA - ie. prevent brute-force attacks and manually > revert the remaining pollution. -- Yet in the last months either CAPTCHA > breaking has improved or there are real persons doing the spamming. > > I did not do statistics, but from watching the changelog I gather that > the vast majority of contributions to the wiki comes from registered > users. So the idea is to lock the wiki down and only allow registered > users (registration requires an email address) to edit it. > > Thoughts? Objections? > > robin > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
