Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

Mediawiki has a website blacklist here:http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-November/008420.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extensionhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spam_blacklist&action=""> ___ libsecondlife

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

an RBL for forum users is a great idea!!  If we could get all the various forum softwares to interact and save to a common list, we could clean up the spam problem in no time.   just, let's not use spamhaus. :-)    If you want a copy of my changes, Hugh, they're yours for the asking. The changes ar

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

Did some cleaning...Random thoughts on phpbb:- a fast way to clean is from mysql commandline "delete from phpbb_users where user_website like '%viagra%';' etc- it  could be interesting to add a function to the registration website to block a list of websites or patterns, eg just hard-coded into an

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

> You should send your code changes to http://www.manageddreams.com/osmpbb/ they are getting swarmed. Hugh do you run that forum?Yeah :-DI'd love to have some anti-spam mechanism that works actually.  Deleting spam got old, I just never got around to implementing some sort of fix for that. As Tom s

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

The thing is, I don't want to modify the forum code more than necessary, since I'll have to re-make those changes when the next version of the software is released.     here's what I did: 1. changed the "sign up" link at the top of the main forum page to authcheck.php. 2. authcheck.php asks "what'

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

Does the page set a cookie or something, because it shouldn't just redirect... On 10/12/06, Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: that's the general idea, but not totally sure whether it'll make a difference. I'll watch it for a week or so. If it doesn't work, I'll modify the signup .php so that

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

Tom Wilson wrote: that's the general idea, but not totally sure whether it'll make a difference. I'll watch it for a week or so. If it doesn't work, I'll modify the signup .php so that it's a non-standard URL You should send your code changes to http://www.manageddreams.com/osmpbb/ they are g

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

that's the general idea, but not totally sure whether it'll make a difference. I'll watch it for a week or so. If it doesn't work, I'll modify the signup .php so that it's a non-standard URL On 10/12/06, Hugh Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, I misunderstood I think.  Your own question was add

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

Oh, I misunderstood I think.  Your own question was added and therefore non-standard, and therefore avoids bots? ___ libsecondlife-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/libsecondlife-dev http://www.libsecondlife.org/

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] forums

It won't stop people spamming you ;-)A guy on slashdot suggested doing one of:- setting the www field to invisible in the submission form.  Bots see the field and fill it in, then you simply reject these submissions - adding an additional field that users have to set.  The bots dont set the field t

[libsecondlife-dev] forums

Hey all.   I made a minor change to the forum software. During the register process, it now requires the user to answer a very simple question before being allowed to register. Why don't you all try it and give me some feedback?    Thanks.-- Tom Wilson[EMAIL PROTECTED]KI6ABZ

Re: [libsecondlife-dev] Forums

Tom Wilson wrote: John, do you think it's time to put a link to the forums on the libsecondlife.org home page? -- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] KI6ABZ _

[libsecondlife-dev] Forums

John, do you think it's time to put a link to the forums on the libsecondlife.org home page?-- Tom Wilson[EMAIL PROTECTED] KI6ABZ ___ libsecondlife-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/libsecondlife-dev