Re: Scheme Cookbook spam

I concur with what others have suggested wrt modifying the
registration process.  As it looks like the spammers are
using an automated tool, I think we only need to make our
registration process sufficiently non-standard to foil the
tool and hence the spammers.  So let's add a really simple
question (or set of questions) and be done with it.

I like the King's suggestion but since someone actually
needs to do this, rather than talk about it, I posit that
the scale of the attack does not exceed the hactivation
threshold of those who might choose to hack what is
presumably TWiki's core code.  I posit that the hackivation
threshold of altering the signup process is lower.

Tony's suggestion pushes too much work onto the editors, in
my opinion.  

Talking of hactivation thresholds: I've got a load of work
right now, but might get to looking at this end of this
week.

Cheers,
Noel

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