Question

Our public TWiki seems of late to be attracting a number of spammers who enjoy adding "content" to the TWiki of a sometimes risque at at best danged annoying nature.

What I'm wondering is if there is any way to:

1. Require that the user reply to the registration e-mail properly in order to gain write access.

2. A "number image" type of verification can be used to defeat automated resgistration.

I'm hoping that either or both options/plugins exist and I've just not been diligent enough in my research to find it. Thanks in advance for your help.

Environment

-- JamesSparenberg - 14 Jan 2005

Answer

DakarRelease requires the validaion of the email address. We'd welcome image verication. Got some code?

-- MartinCleaver - 14 Jan 2005

No but since I originally posted this I might have run across someone I can talk into creation of the code. I'm planning on doing some polite arm twisting.

-- JamesSparenberg - 29 Jan 2005

In the mean time I suggest to install the BlackListPlugin, it is pretty good at catching spammers.

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Jan 2005

James - it would be great if you could own this feature build - if you start this, can you please progress the topic ValidateUserWithImageVerification?

-- MartinCleaver - 30 Jan 2005