[cap-talk] Wiki for discussion?? (was Re: cap-talk infrastructure problem?)

Valerio Bellizzomi devbox at selnet.org
Fri Dec 8 12:40:15 CST 2006


On 06/12/2006, at 20.26, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 01:49 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>> Hmmm, I'm not very fond of web-based solutions.
>> The problem with web-archived mailing lists or blogs, is that the
robots
>> (spiders) read the content of web pages to capture e-mail addresses, so
>if
>> we go on web-based solution we should expect an increase in spam.
>> 
>> val
>
>This hasn't been the case with the existing mailman solution, because it
>obfuscates email addresses and does not accept input from unregistered
>users.

We didn't obfuscate addresses from the start, I remember that we had to
contact Mailman developers with regard to a bug.
As a result I'm still receiving approximately 30 spam messages per day on
this mailbox.

>
>The "must register to contribute" rule would certainly apply on the wiki
>as well.

I agree.

>
>shap
>
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