[pmwiki-users] Persistent attacks on pages

[porneL]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:27:21 +0100, <pmwiki at 911networks.com> wrote:

> Captcha is the answer. Is there a way to implement it in PM?

I think it won't solve anything.

Wikis are attacked in two ways:
* spam bots
* human vandals

Spam bots target search engines, so they have to include machine-readable  
keywords, therefore they're easy to block. Blocklist and DNS RBL work  
great and work without disturbing real contributors.

Worse kind of attack is by stupid people, who will be more determined to  
pass CAPTCHA and similar tests than actual contributors would.

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regards, porneL