From Tim Starling
ray(a)ganymede.org wrote:
>
>
> I am curious why the note that I sent about this issue seemed to end
the
> thread, with no follow-up. Has this kind of
option been rejected in
the
> past? This seems to be a fairly standard
security/authentication
issue
> and I believe that the technology I suggested is
the kind of thing
that
would be
fairly obvious. Am I wrong about something here?
Just to add, with a authentication architecture, you could much more
easily offer offline editing with subsequent re-integration of the
content. Or am I swimming against the current here?
How can you tell the difference between a bot and a person without
annoying people? I'm not aware of any non-annoying method which is
even
close to effective. Without an effective method, your
scheme do
nothing
but annoy the legitimate bot-runners and slightly
inconvenience the
hackers. Not to mention the development time required.
You use the honor system. That is, you ask people to register their
bots.