Caleb Racey, Webteam, ISS
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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>From: Managing an institutional web site [mailto:WEBSITE-INFO-
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>Sent: 18 November 2005 12:31
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>Subject: Blogs and other such things
>
>Hi all,
>
>I guess many of you are investigating or implementing blogs or other
>such stuff, and there is already at least one well known major
>implementation.
>
>But how many of you find that your own institutions regulations would
>prohibit anonymous postings to (e.g.) blogs and how would you get round
>this? Set up a separate AUP just for the blog?
>
I personally wouldn't allow anonymous posting to anything. Comment wiki
spam gets to all unprotected blogs/wikis I've seen.
Protecting blogs with CAPTCHAs is not really an option as they are
easily fooled and secondly I have yet to see a CAPTCHA scheme with any
decent accessibility or usability. If anyone knows of one please tell
me.
I would stick to a moderated comment system where the blog owner
moderates the comments and only the system only allows comments from
people who provide an email address, url or even openId for those on the
bleeding edge
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