David Abrahams wrote:
Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
Gennaro Prota wrote:
Hi,
I did many fixes yesterday on
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostConfig
but they seem to have been reverted. Anyone knowing what's going on? Sorry, I had to revert a huge spam attack and I missed that you had made changes. Should be restored now.
Jeff,
I still don't understand why we don't have a simple "register and reply to an email before editing" interface as so many public sites do. This constant battle against wiki spammers hardly seems worth the trouble.
Two reasons. That requires a software upgrade including data conversion to new wiki software. Second, based on my discussion with other wiki administrators it doesn't stop spammers -- they just register with a free email address and off they go. Bottom line is that today's system takes me about 10 minutes per day. The only bad part is that it sometimes takes a bit more time to roll back if I don't happen to be online. Jeff