From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] tail rec
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:49:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070521144915.GA11597@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705211536.44616.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Monday 21 May 2007 15:24:44 Christopher L Conway wrote:
> > It would be great to have a resource like the Haskell Wiki for the
> > OCaml community. Such things are not difficult to maintain once they
> > are set up (although someone will have to volunteer for spam patrol).
>
> Having had all links to ffconsultancy.com removed from Wikipedia
> (even my PhD thesis!), we discussed this at length in our company
> recently. Spammers and vandals are a major problem for Wikis. I
> think we dreamt up a good solution: replace the standard "type in
> these letters" with a Turing test.
Since forcing people to sign up with an email address, the wikis at
http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/ and http://cocan.org/ have been spam
free, although people who signed up have complained about getting
notified of all the changes[*] so perhaps that's another sort of spam.
You are right though that CAPTCHAs do not work. Seriously. Every
time I've looked at a case of Wiki spam, it's been done by a human
being presumably sitting in a sweat-shop in China or wherever. Human
beings have no problem typing in CAPTCHAs.
Forcing them to learn OCaml in order to contribute is a good idea. If
they did it, then even if we get spammed, at least we get more OCaml
coders ...
Rich.
[*] They can turn this off.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 2:56 skaller
2007-05-19 5:00 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-19 5:28 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-05-19 12:58 ` skaller
2007-05-19 20:19 ` Jonathan Bryant
2007-05-19 21:55 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-19 22:13 ` skaller
2007-05-19 14:28 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-05-19 14:46 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-05-19 16:06 ` skaller
2007-05-21 12:57 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-21 13:04 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-21 13:21 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-05-21 13:30 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-21 14:00 ` Brian Hurt
2007-05-21 13:47 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-21 14:24 ` Christopher L Conway
2007-05-21 14:36 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-21 14:49 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-05-21 14:42 ` ocaml faq (was [Caml-list] tail rec) Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-21 15:09 ` Christopher L Conway
2007-05-21 15:17 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-21 15:27 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-21 16:23 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-21 16:59 ` Robert Fischer
2007-05-21 16:26 ` Richard Jones
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