Norm,
+++1
These messages are also explicitly designed to enhance the senders
Google search rankings - so they are systematic and deliberate.
We need to remove them from the archives as well.
We should not be offering easy support for these people - and I
totally agree with immediate action to frustrate what
they are currently doing.
I'm getting up to 20+ messages daily - being on comment lists and
seeing 1 or 2 occurrences of these automated postings.
: -(
DW
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [chairs]
Spam comments
From: Norman Walsh <>
Date: Thu,
June 29, 2006 12:40 pm
To:
Recently, I've noticed an increase
in the amount of spam coming through
the OASIS comment
form:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=xxx
Is
anything being done to address this problem? Could comments
be
subjected to moderation by staff or at least to some form
of
CAPTCHA[*] to limit bot-driven spam?
Be seeing
you,
norm
* I have some resevations about CAPTCHAs as
they tend to discriminate
against users with certain kinds of
disabilities, but surely this is a
problem that's been addressed.
Asking commenters to answer a simple
math question (like the sum of
two randomly generated single digit
numbers) would probably be
sufficient, at least in the short term, to
address the
problem.
--
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
