Google won't submit forms. Robots can't read. Require a challenge before allowing submissions- whether it be an email-based challenge, or an image that contains distorted text. I don't know if there are any blind users of SQLite but they would probably prefer the former.
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 07:48, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > In the past couple of days, I've been having problems with > spiders vandalizing the Wiki at http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki. > The damage (so far) has been relatively minor and easy to fix. > But I've been monitoring these spiders for a while and notice > that they are becoming increasingly aggressive. > > If you have any suggestions on what to do about them, I'd > like to hear from you. > > I'm guessing that these spiders are coming from spammers looking > to harvest email addresses. Last nights attack came from > 61.51.123.205. No reverse DNS is available. Can anybody > provide any insight into where the attacks are coming from? > > I've added some spider detection logic to cvstrac which > shuts down large portions of the website to spiders. I > used to have problems with spiders pulling out every historical > version of every source code file every night. I've solved > that now. But I've been leaving the wiki open to spiders > because I *want* Google spiders to visit the wiki. > > My next defense will be to try to make the wiki read-only > to spiders. That will prevent the vandalism I'm been seeing > for the past couple of days, assuming my spider detection > continues to work. But if the attackers start doing a better > job of disguising their spiders, my detection might fail > and this defense would become ineffective. > > Any other ideas? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
