On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Clayton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm busy tidying up spam on the OOoWiki on a fairly regular basis. The > OOoWiki uses several tools to block/stop spammers (BadBehavior, the spam > RegEx etc.)... it's working most of the time, but the spammers still get > in and vandalize pages several times per week. I've been poking around > and discovered that a lot of the spammers (who create an account just to > post a URL link) are using Mailinator dot com to create a one-time-use > throwaway email address to receive the Wiki user authentication email. > > Is there any practical way of blocking new users from using specific > services like Mailinator? Is there a better way of dealing with > situations like this? > > C. The OpenID authentication service, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID seems to deal with these situations effectively. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
