[Phoenix-pm] phoenix.pm.org update/THE PASSWORD IS...

[Scott Walters]

Hi Brock,

Not entirely a bad idea, a text-based captcha, but in this case, it's
humans who are manually spamming these things -- apparently often low
cost but English reading and writing foreign labor -- so I don't want
any humans to have access except the group and people who email me.
The Wiki is updated extremely infrequently or never by people
outside this group and by very few people within this group.
But all of this is of course still up for debate. This is just my
reasoning so far.

-scott

On  0, Brock <awwaiid at thelackthereof.org> wrote:
> On 2006.01.13.11.59, Scott Walters wrote:
> | But that's not all. Saving pages is now password protected. I'm sick
> | to death of Wiki spam and there's no diff.cgi on there, and I don't
> | want to have to remember to police this Wiki besides PerlDesignPatterns.
> | The password is 'brock2'. 
> 
> Did you see my text-based captchca thingie? When you save a page on my
> wiki it asks something like "Name a four-letter programming language
> that starts with a 'P' and ends in an 'l'", or "This old man came _____
> home". Get the answer and you can save the page. Try it out on my
> SandBox, http://thelackthereof.org/wiki.pl/SandBox
> 
> | But wait, there's more! http://phoenix.pm.org/rss.cgi is a cheezeball
> | RSS 0.91 feed that (currently) only tells you when a page was last
> | edited. Here's how that's useful: if PerlCalendar was recently 
> | edited, someone probably posted a meeting announcement, and you should
> | pop on over to the site to read it. 
> 
> Awesome
> 
> --Brock
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