[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Bo]

Hello, 
thanks for the reply. 

I think i was not enough specific. I didn't meant that it is supposed to send 
IMs to avatars. I meant that a person will get a PIN on the website and pass 
it to a inworld script which will pass it back to the registration system and 
approve the user.

HG is slowly becoming standard. So i hope that anyone could HG to the  Lbsa...

Bo

> @Bo, i kind of like the idea, and i definitely think that it would
> work for a grid-specific wiki, like the OSGrid wiki, or the Inworldz
> wiki. However, the OpenSim wiki would have to be able to send a
> message to every grid, including those that are not listed anywhere.
> You could make a custom signup form, asking for avatar name, grid (in
> a freeform textbox), etc. But that may in turn lead to an even worse
> vulnerability.
> Imagine the following scenario: This guy called Bo bumped into my
> avatar and did not apologize, and i want to take revenge. So i write
> some script that will fill out his avatar name and grid into our shiny
> new form. You would then get bombarded by a massive number of requests
> to confirm your identity, ruining your fun of being in-world. And we
> don't want to be responsible for that either. It would turn us from
> target for spam, into a griefing tool. And i would much rather be a
> target than a tool :-)