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25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
1:33 a.m.
MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:
Maybe instead of text, do what some e-shopping sites do. Have a pass phrase displayed on an image, and let the person type that in. Then the pass cannot be harvested.
I think the text-based verifier should be sufficient: the important thing is that it should no longer be possible to spam our wiki using *off-the-shelf* automated tools.
Did everyone catch the hashcash story involving wiki's on Slashdot recently?
Beat Spam Using Hashcash http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1811251&tid=111&tid=1...