[TOS] Wiki cleanup status report

[Ian Weller]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:13:06PM -0800, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> I'm all for captchas.  They are somewhat annoying, but go a long way
> in blocking spam from my experience.

I've recently worked with three separate communities that run wikis that
already use reCAPTCHA for user registration and anonymous editing and
bots still create users and anonymous edits.

I would just keep this in mind -- CAPTCHAs aren't gonna cut it alone.

-- 
Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>
Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
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