On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 16:32 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
On 30/11/2011 16:30, Christian Lohmaier wrote:Hi *, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:On 30/11/2011 15:16, Alexander Werner wrote:Am 30.11.2011 um 03:08 schrieb Christian Lohmaier:[...] Also one thing i noticed in another part of this thread is about spam. Phpbb implements CAPTCHA's out of the box they just have to be enabled when registering.Ah, JForum supports captchas as well, but the problem with captachs is that it will also hit regular users, not only spammers. While one can add the captcha to be on registration only, I don't think this will help - as the forum is set to require email-authentication.. But if spam becomes a problem, the captcha can be activated. ciao ChristianI would activate it from the get go as a preventative measure. at least we will be keeping the spam bots out of the site.
Using Captcha alone is just jumping to the spam arms race - you make a better captcha, they make a better algorithm to decode it.. Email verification for registrations is both an anti-spam feature, and also ensures that you can communicate status notifications to the user. [an aside here, it's a good idea also to have a way for users to contact site admins (or forum admins depending on the package] not only via the web interface, but via email - but that is a simple detail in any of the packages, just tossing it out as I think of it] ReCaptcha is a better choice IMO then Captcha ... but isn't the only one - having a non-graphical question that changes can be a very good step also - using the known spam address services is good, but you can find yourself dealing with false positive issues - still, I think it's more then worth the trade off. I think this is one feature that you will find pretty much a push across all packages - meaning they all do it reasonably well, and with the arms race all will need tweaking over time. Just my .02 on that. Looks like that call is coming up in just few minutes - catch you all there.. //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted