From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T04:40:26+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygarden homepage hacks

Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:55:44 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> 
>>>Sascha Doerdelmann wrote:


>>>BTW:  It would be really nice if one could create one central Ruby account,
>>>which then would work with: rubyforge, rubygarden, rcrchive, raa, rubynews.
>>>Is such unification realistic ?

>>I agree. Registering that often is painful. Unfortunately centralization
>>does not scale. There must be other ways to fight bots. I think that they
>>are not so good at OCR so far (that way I don't have to "invent" a new
>>password all the time, that I keep forgetting anyway).

> That is a nice idea, to have an autogenerated image, containing
> a password to be used for making changes (and some random noise 
> to confuse the bot). 
> And maybe it would help prevent disaster to limit the amount of 
> text that can be deleted at a time.

Search on RAA for 'CAPTCHA' - someone mentioned a library a couple
of months ago.

Ah, here it is:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/captcha/