Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
I have a "wallet manager" in my desktop environment and it works pretty well. The only situation where it gets confused is when sites use non-sense, unstable URLs (like Amazon and the UEA library catalogue).
What's it called and how well does it cope with synchronising between multiple desktops? Iceweasel isn't very good at it.
sfr sunflowerinrain@gmail.com wrote:
Me too with the registrations: it gets sillier and sillier. Log-in is a fairly easy way to stop spamming, though, and something has to be done to guard against it (look at the spamattacks on alug.org.uk and the Norwich Open Guide).
Log-in does nothing to *stop* spamming (as I've seen with spam attacks on co-opnet and AFFS amongst others). It just raises the cost of participation for everyone, which may deter some spammers who go looking for cheaper targets. Eventually, they will come back and the log-in-required site will still be unprotected.
Sadly, the best way to protect sites is to keep hand-moderation as the last line of decision.
Kirsten Naylor wildduck@wildduck.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 11:52 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
[...] Perhaps the site and/or announcements should mention the registration requirement?
I would have thought that if I could figure it out then you could.
Huh? Did I post to [alug anti-social] by mistake?
Regards,