On Thursday, Dec 2, 2004, at 12:21 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
I should really say that it requires daily upkeep. Over time the spammers are getting better at this, I think. First it was pr0n, then poker, then more pr0n. I think the incident rate has increased and not been adequately blocked by the banlist (meaning more ips are occuring than we are collecting.)
No doubt. I think spammers are indeed getting better. I think they are also realizing the potential of wikis, and exploiting them, way before the general populace does. As for collecting IPs, I think that's a short-term solution. Over time spammers will have a distinct advantage because:
1) more and more will realize how to exploit wikis
2) someone will come up with an automated tool to spam wikis (most likely a perl script using LWP)
3) more and more IP addresses will be dynamic
At some point, wikis will have to have some kind of barrier to slow down/weed out spammers. I would imagine that barrier will look similar to what the cewlug currently use for the mailing list.
As far as the banlist goes, how about I put up a (albeit stopgap) svn repository with this one file. Then we can setup it by a co, followed by ups and commits everytime we change it? A little simpler than WebDAV approaches.
I'm game. I just need to figure out how to use svn from the command line.
BTW. you (Rob�rt,) are the most (pro)active in the world according to google:
"wiki banlist" -> I'm Feeling Lucky
Woo-hoo! I'm #1. Uh, now what? :)
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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