"Nick Matteo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/07, MLA-Gobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having just edited several pages with spam, it seems as though every one > > is just a massive collection of links. That seems pretty easy to test for. > > There is already a system in place to block edits containing specified > regular expressions. I am adding some more to it, but am not sure > about blocking external links entirely. Suggestions for more regexes > would be welcome.
What sort of regexes are they? Can we block edits adding more than a number of links at one time, say 5? In perl, I think that's (http://.*){6,} - If we can combine this with a sleep(20) in the save routine, that would make it slower for spammers, which makes their spamming less worthwhile. Some other wiki spam-defeaters are listed at http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AntiSpam Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
