[csw-maintainers] Spam from the pkgrequest form

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> No dia 17 de Agosto de 2010 10:18, Peter FELECAN
> <pfelecan at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>>
>>> How about adding a honeypot field?  It's a text field that must remain
>>> empty for the form to be accepted.  Bots usually try to fill all the
>>> fields in the hope that they will fill in all the mandatory fields.
>>
>> Is this efficient? How about a captcha? The same will apply for the new
>> maintainer subscription, isn't it?
>
> True, captchas are better.  I was thinking that a honeypot field is
> easier to implement.

The honeypot field is cheapo indeed. Who can do the modification and who
has knowledge resources for captcha?
-- 
Peter