RE: [chairs] Spam comments

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Duane Nickull <>
Date
2006-06-29T17:14:22+00:00
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RE: [chairs] Spam comments
The SOA RM TC just went through this:

 

Comments Resolution:

Dismissed:  We discussed at great length
(no pun intended) and believe that no one on the TC actually needs Viagra but
thank the commenter for considering this.

 

ROTFL!!!

 

D

 

 

 

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From: Rich Thompson
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:55
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Subject: Re: [chairs] Spam comments

 

In this same vein, how does the TC process section
related public reviews get handled? The relevant paragraph is: 

Comments from non-TC Members must be collected via the TC's archived public
comment facility; comments submitted through any other means shall not be
accepted. The TC must track the comments received as well as the disposition of
each comment. 

Does
this require that spam comments be tracked (& resolved :}) or do we allow
the TC or TC chair to determine whether a particular submission is spam and not
a public review comment? 

Rich Thompson

OASIS WSRP TC Chair

 

  
  
Norman Walsh
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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.