Is this manual spamming or some robot doing it?
Would a "what characters in the image" question block a spam robot..?
For manual spamming, in the same line - would a "trivia Lucene/code
question" block at least some spammers?
Just a thought, though I don't know there is sufficient infrastructure for
either of the two...
Doron

Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/03/2007 10:59:38:

> Another thing I am working on is getting change notifications sent to
> the commits list, so that we will (hopefully) notice these kinds of
> changes sooner.  I am not sure about the asking part, as I don't know
> who would want that job.
>
> At any rate, the bottom line is we should keep an eye out for this
> kind of stuff going forward.  Sigh.
>
> -Grant
>
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
> > btw, the Lenya Wiki is experiencing the same problems. I think it
> > would make sense that people have to ask for a Wiki account on the
> > development list, otherwise one just keeps chasing these spammers
> > endlessly ...
> >
> > just my 2 cents
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Simon Willnauer wrote:
> >
> >> cheers Grant!!
> >>
> >> regards simon
> >>
> >> On 3/26/07, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> FYI.
> >>>
> >>> I have taken care of the Gdata issues
> >>>
> >>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>
> >>> > From: Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> > Date: March 26, 2007 2:45:36 PM EDT
> >>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> > Subject: Wiki Vandalism on 3/25
> >>> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Folks- our wiki spammer has struck again this weekend,
> >>> > and I am contacting you to let you know that there are
> >>> > porn links on your wiki which needs to be removed.  Here
> >>> > is a list of currently affected urls, relative to
> >>> > http://wiki.apache.org/
> >>> >
> >>> > /db-torque/stefanoulissi
> >>> > /jakarta-cactus/
> >>> > /jakarta-cactus/FrontPage
> >>> > /jakarta-slide/
> >>> > /jakarta-slide/FrontPage
> >>> > /general/WalterMundt
> >>> > /general/HowToBeWikiAdministrator
> >>> > /general/FindPage
> >>> > /jakarta-commons/UserPreferences
> >>> > /jakarta-commons/
> >>> > /jakarta-commons/FrontPage
> >>> > /jakarta-commons/UserPreferences
> >>> > /excalibur/UserPreferences
> >>> > /excalibur/BoardReports/20050622
> >>> > /xindice/
> >>> > /xindice/FrontPage
> >>> > /xindice/InterWiki
> >>> > /james/SpamBlocking
> >>> > /james/SummerOfCode2005/SergeyLubinskiyFastFail
> >>> > /jakarta-lucene/GdataServer/FAQ
> >>> > /harmony/
> >>> > /harmony/FrontPage
> >>> > /harmony/DaneseCooper
> >>> > /harmony/StartSide
> >>> > /myfaces/
> >>> > /myfaces/FrontPage
> >>> > /myfaces/InterWiki
> >>> > /nutch/Automating_Fetches_with_Python
> >>> > /jakarta-httpclient/StartSide
> >>> > /jakarta-httpclient/PythonLanguage
> >>> > /jakarta-httpclient/UseCases/MultiAsyncRequests
> >>> > /xmlbeans/
> >>> > /xmlbeans/FrontPage
> >>> > /xmlbeans/HelpContents
> >>> >
> >>> > Once again, you may not have been properly notified through
> >>> > a commit email because our mail servers rejected some of the
> >>> > diffs as spam.
> >>> >
> >>> > Please do the needful, and thanks for being vigilant!
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Joe Schaefer
> >>>


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