From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-11-11T10:43:30+09:00
Subject: Re: A Wiki/Spam Report

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Jim Weirich wrote:

> Part of the magic of the "wiki way" is gathering the input from legitimate
> users.  Therefore we want to make the barrier of entry very very low,
> otherwise people just won't bother to post.  It is entirely possible that we
> may be forced to go to a user registration process, but I hope that's a last
> resort and not the first response.

how about an 'invitation' process: you can invite me, and then i can invite
other people.  eg. you've got to get someone else to register you.  finding
that special someone would probably involve a post to comp.lang.ruby with
something like

   Subject: [INVITE]

   please won't someone invite me

this is consistent with the notion of 'legitimate users' and is a lower
barrier than a full blown registration process that requires someone behind it
unless it's automated - in which case (esp. if most spam is human generated)
what's the point?

just a thought...

regards.

-a
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