From Tim Starling ray@ganymede.org wrote:
I am curious why the note that I sent about this issue seemed to end
the
thread, with no follow-up. Has this kind of option been rejected in
the
past? This seems to be a fairly standard security/authentication
issue
and I believe that the technology I suggested is the kind of thing
that
would be fairly obvious. Am I wrong about something here?
Just to add, with a authentication architecture, you could much more easily offer offline editing with subsequent re-integration of the content. Or am I swimming against the current here?
How can you tell the difference between a bot and a person without annoying people? I'm not aware of any non-annoying method which is
even
close to effective. Without an effective method, your scheme do
nothing
but annoy the legitimate bot-runners and slightly inconvenience the hackers. Not to mention the development time required.
You use the honor system. That is, you ask people to register their bots.