From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B78DBC6B for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:49:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4LEnMlx032169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:49:23 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hq9CG-0005Ug-00; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:49:16 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:49:16 +0100 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] tail rec Message-ID: <20070521144915.GA11597@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1179543365.26755.33.camel@rosella.wigram> <3504239D-24EF-454A-8586-F144AE445B6D@epfl.ch> <4a051d930705210724t6336138fkfd5f0531122bdc84@mail.gmail.com> <200705211536.44616.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705211536.44616.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4651B172.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 haskell:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 wikipedia:01 wikis:01 wikis:01 complained:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 dreamt:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 rec:01 typing:01 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