[SAC] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mantra for osgeo id?

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 24 May 2016 at 18:03, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 08:56 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> On 24 May 2016 at 17:53, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:20:11AM -0700, Eli Adam wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:28:59AM -0500, Howard Butler wrote:
>>>>>> Can we change the directions for this so people do not go to -discuss? It is a waste of people's attention to be sending this stuff there, and it will cause people to leave the list.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was hoping for the mantra to become a way to get new users
>>>>> known at registration time, maybe we could add a recomandation
>>>>> to include such presentation in the email ? Would it be better ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or would there be another more appropriate "welcome" list for
>>>>> new users ?
>>>>
>>>> This email list seems logical since it is where the people who can
>>>> give out the mantra are located.
>>>
>>> Actually I wanted the mantra to be more easily shared with trusted
>>> people. For example (...)
>>
>> Is CAPTCHA really insufficient solution?
>
>
> Yes, the spammer was a human, not a bot. Sandro has a log of a
> conversation where the person tried to obtain a mantra on IRC.

Alex,

So, mantra prevented a handful of one human spammer.
IMHO, the ratio of work required to answer mantra requests to spammers
caught is too high to justify use of mantra as better solution than captcha.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net