Re: [LAU] [Consortium] wiki.LAO - lockdown to registered users

Wholeheartedly agree. On 07/17/2012 12:54 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: > Hi all, > > http://wiki.linuxaudio.org is seeing an increasing amount of SPAM. > > For a while it has been sufficient to [fail2]ban IP addresses that > incorrectly guess CAPTCHA - ie. prevent brute-force attacks and manually > revert the remaining pollution. -- Yet in the last months either CAPTCHA > breaking has improved or there are real persons doing the spamming. > > I did not do statistics, but from watching the changelog I gather that > the vast majority of contributions to the wiki comes from registered > users. So the idea is to lock the wiki down and only allow registered > users (registration requires an email address) to edit it. > > Thoughts? Objections? > > robin