RE: Scheme Cookbook spam

King Doug wrote:
> What's to stop the spammers from automating their answers, by parsing the
> challenge, putting the snippet through a command-line Scheme, and sending
> back the answer?

Nothing and your "arms race" comparison is correct. Unfortunately,
some defence is needed if the webmaster doesn't want to be tidying
up after each intruder. If someone comes along with a bigger attack,
then it's back to the old ways, but will many bother?

To be honest, I find if you repel them a couple of times, they go
away for a while. They're really after unmaintained wikis.

> One thought about a solution: modify the wiki code to not render URLs as
> links, except for a certain, maybe small, whitelisted set of domains.

Yuck. That takes away one simplicity of the WikiWay.



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