CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Ian G <iang AT cacert.org>]

On 04/10/2009 17:06, Daniel Black wrote:
> On Monday 05 October 2009 01:18:08 Andreas Bürki wrote:
>
> > Does the crowd have to do to do login, if comments are moderated /
> controlled? I'm not really sure
> > about this.
>
> logins, i.e. certificates are required to post or comment.


If that is so, and they are CAcert certs, then do we really need to have 
any spam control on there?

theoretically we would need them only for other certs.  But even client 
certs from well known & governed CAs should probably be acceptable as a 
 barrier without subjecting them to spam control.


> > What would be the workload to moderate / control and who
> > does it?
> A setting can enable comments without registration/login.
>
> don't know how much workload that would be. I'm imaging at least 5 spams a
> day. This is what we were gettting when registration was still required to
> comment. Now that I've got this to 0 handling this many is more than I want to
> deal with. Volunteers welcome.

I just looked at 290 in the queue, all spam, all from the same IP#.  I 
deleted them...

Now that a cert is required, my guess is we won't see any more.

iang