From: Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T21:13:09+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

> I've got a list, but it has become obvious that maintaining a list
> manually isn't going to work.  I'm tempted to require registration and
> authentication at this point as much as I hate the thought.

I'd certainly be against it, I know spam is a bad thing and indeed my
own wiki has had it from time to time but requiring authentication /
registration removes a freedom from people they shouldn't have to give
up and might indeed push people away from using it.

Also there is nothing to stop spammers from setting up a ton of "junk"
accounts to get around it. This has happened a lot on Yahoo Groups and
the group we are in basically decided that new users (for a period of
a couple of weeks) has to have their posts moderated. This was to
prevent general spam and job solicitations. I can't think of a way to
make that sort of scheme work in a Wiki enviroment though.

Rob

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