But if the spammer uses Squeak to do the spamming...
he would use it to automate evaluating all the statements.

This is likely since he's targeting Swikis and knows their unique
markup.

He will also make it worth his time to evaluate the 20 - 30 hand
generated questions for the ranking improvement.

And it would be hard for a Squeak beginner to ask beginner questions on
the Swiki if they already have to know the answer before they can post
the question. 

Cheers,
Darius
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
Shiro Ogawa
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:35 PM
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: Web Site Trashed (Again)

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> John Pierce <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 	For instance, as part of the submit process you make your edits
to the
> 	swiki, type the letters you see in the image below in the text
box
> 	
> 	@@@   @   @   @   @@@
> 	@    @  @@@   @   @   @
> 	@@@   @   @   @   @@@
> 	
> The problem with this is that while I can guess that the first letter
is
> "C" and that the last two are "I" and "D", I have no idea what the
stuff
> in the middle is.  My eyesight is up to the task of seeing every
single
> "@" sign, but if this were real, you'd have just locked me out for no
good
> reason.
> 
> A far more reasonable challenge-response hack for a Squeak wiki would
be
> to name a method and a line number and ask someone to type the words
they
> see in that line.  Or here's another one:  include some kind of text
> scrambler in Squeak.  Present a random sequence of letters and ask for
> the scrambled version.  In either of these approaches, you would have
to
> have and be running a copy of Squeak.  You might be an evil spammer,
but
> you would _also_ be a Squeak user, and would probably know about
anything
> discussed in this list.  I think it's fair to require that people who
edit
> the swiki be Squeak users.
> 
> 
> 
This may not work depending on the version of Squeak. How about asking 
some Squeak statement, such as 'abcd' copyFrom:2 to:3, or 1 + 2 * 2 .

Shiro Ogawa