Using email activation might prevent some spam, since user have to
manually activate their accounts, and if it's just a spam bot chances
are that the bot isn't yet that well adapted for XWiki as to know how to
verify their accounts.
Another trick that helped us fight spam on xwiki.org is to fo
Hi,
Here's a little proof of concept which should do the right general thing.
If you put the groovy script at the top of your registration page, you can
edit the content of the page to behave differently if the user fails an RBL
check.
It would make sense to allow them in but lock the account and
Hi Niels,
I am sorry to hear you`re having problems with trolls and I can perfectly
understand how annoying, disruptive and possibly costly that might be.
However, I would not encourage IP filtering based solutions to handle SPAM
in general, simply due to the scarce nature of IPv4 addresses (and
This is either a feature request or a request for discussing
solutions to the issue of known comment spammers against XWiki
installs.
There's known spammers like davycrokk...@hotmail.com (see
http://www.nielsmayer.com/bin/view/XWiki/DavyCrokkett ) which have to
be managed and curtailed for any XW
