From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T01:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:37:04 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
> How about displaying a trivial line of Ruby code and asking the user to
> enter the value. Something like
> 
>     To stop spammers, please enter the value of the following
> 
>        1.+(2) = |   |
> 
> Change the + to a - or * randomly, and pick random numbers between 1
> and 9

That works for Ruby developers' wikis, but not for the general case.
Although my current "clients" for Ruwiki are all developers, I intend
to aim it a bit wider.

-austin
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