Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-05 Thread Rene A Enguehard
Just because a user has succeeded at the captcha does not mean he is indeed human. It's been proven by various researchers that beating captchas is entirely possible. Optical character recognition, like that used in flatbed scanner software, can be used with a fairly high success rate. Another

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Anne Ghisla wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Patton ha scritto: ... >> There is a MediaWiki Extension for reCaptcha [1] >> http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ >> >> [1] >> http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html >> http://en.wikipedia

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-05 Thread Anne Ghisla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patton ha scritto: > On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: >> >> Anne Ghisla wrote: >>> Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better? >>> I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it >>> is alrea

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-04 Thread Dave Patton
On 2009/07/04 8:00 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Ghisla wrote: Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better? I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it is already active when a user adds external links

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-04 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Ghisla wrote: > Is this enough to avoid such spam? Is't captcha better? > I can have a look at how it can be implemented in user login (I know it > is already active when a user adds external links to a page). Go for it. If you find instructions

[OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-04 Thread Anne Ghisla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnulf Christl schrieb: >Rene A Enguehard schrieb: >> Deleting or banning the users won't stop them. What you need to do is >> look at where these people are coming from (IPs) and ban those >directly. >> >> Cheers, >> René > >Thanks for the tip, all b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene A Enguehard schrieb: > Deleting or banning the users won't stop them. What you need to do is > look at where these people are coming from (IPs) and ban those directly. > > Cheers, > René Thanks for the tip, all blocked now. Regards, Arnulf. >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses schrieb: > ¡Hola Arnulfo! > >> If you are interested in busting this kind of page yourself you are >> invited to take on the burdens of the sysop role [1]. This list of >> people can delete pages. >> >> I just checked the user list [2] and deleted a dozen more cialis bust

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Rene A Enguehard
Deleting or banning the users won't stop them. What you need to do is look at where these people are coming from (IPs) and ban those directly. Cheers, René Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) a écrit : Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses schrieb: I've found several pages and some users spamming the wiki as you c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
¡Hola Arnulfo! > If you are interested in busting this kind of page yourself you are > invited to take on the burdens of the sysop role [1]. This list of > people can delete pages. > > I just checked the user list [2] and deleted a dozen more cialis bust > enhancers. If I would gobble all that stu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-03 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses schrieb: > I've found several pages and some users spamming the wiki as you can see in > [1] > > [1] > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&ns2=1&search=cialis&fulltext=Advanced+search > > Greetings > > > Thanks for the notice, I removed the pages

[OSGeo-Discuss] Some cialis spam in the wiki...

2009-07-01 Thread Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses
I've found several pages and some users spamming the wiki as you can see in [1] [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&ns2=1&search=cialis&fulltext=Advanced+search Greetings -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía Valencia (España) ___