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Wholeheartedly agree.
On 07/17/2012 12:54 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:

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> 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

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