Hi, Just to add another minor data point to the discussion, looking at the wiki users list it seems to me that there's a lot of random-looking accounts there that look spambot-generated.
http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Special:Listusers -- Hisham On 8/13/07, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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 > _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
