It's a pretty narrow view to take of Captchas. As I said before, the
reCaptcha plug-in still allows anonymous edits, it only requires code entry
if that captcha has an external link or the visitor is trying to create a
new user on the wiki.
I run a reasonably popular wiki, around 2000 visitors per day, and I've
never had a single spam edit since I installed the plug-in a couple of years
ago.
Thanks,
Samuel Richardson
Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748
Have you added your business to the Melpedia yet?
http://www.melpedia.com.au
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen(a)t-online.de> wrote:
Hallo, Michael,
Du (michael.daly) meintest am 29.09.08:
I see you've been putting all the offending
IPs into the blocked IP
list. That has limited value since the IPs of spammers change so
often.
I use the CIDR notation - that's enough for x.y.z.w/16 nets.
You could try installing a Captcha extension. If
the spammer is a
bot, they tend to be stopped by that.
Captcha is evil. It blocks the good guys very well, and it blocks the
bad guys poorly (is that english? please excuse my gerlish)
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
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