anyone else affected by wiki spam bots?

2006-04-12 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
We've been getting a lot of wiki spam bot postings on the jakarta tapestry wiki for the past week or two. Was wondering if this is a global problem or if anyone else has been getting this? -- Jesse Kuhnert Tacos/Tapestry, team member/developer Open source based consulting work centered around

RE: anyone else affected by wiki spam bots?

2006-04-12 Thread Noel J. Bergman
At the moment, this is the only report I've seen. Howard also mentioned it to infrastructure. So these wiki bots know how to create accounts and sign into them for spamming? --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: anyone else affected by wiki spam bots?

2006-04-12 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
Yeah it look like it. It's probably because getting an account looks like something that could be automated. There's a tiny bit of discussion on it here http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamFeatures , the bottom points to a sample bad content configuration that someone created to help get rid

Re: anyone else affected by wiki spam bots?

2006-04-12 Thread James Mitchell
We have had a few instances on our (Struts) wiki as well. -- James Mitchell On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: At the moment, this is the only report I've seen. Howard also mentioned it to infrastructure. So these wiki bots know how to create accounts and sign into