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 XWiki install enabling comments.

During registration, it would it be nice to check sites like
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ and prevent registration emails from
going out to known comment spammers.

For example, the aforementioned spammer is listed at
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/111.243.227.227
suggesting Current country of origin:    Taiwan, Province of China

Date    IP Address      Username        Email           
1-Jul-11 07:31  111.243.227.227 coseteene       davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
30-Jun-11 18:29 111.243.227.227 Assusypesound   davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
30-Jun-11 13:43 111.243.227.227 Impuppota       davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
30-Jun-11 11:22 111.243.227.227 Biordaccoma     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
30-Jun-11 07:01 111.243.227.227 rooviskitte     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 23:59 109.230.222.175 Beethyemegree   davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 22:49 111.243.227.227 Kneefshes       davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 13:59 111.243.227.227 seltencarne     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 13:31 111.243.227.227 inigneedync     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 11:50 174.142.132.203 Beethyemegree   davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 11:50 174.142.132.203 phorilmiplism   davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 07:53 111.243.227.227 Agergeevame     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 05:56 111.243.227.227 Atomnegmess     davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        
29-Jun-11 05:50 111.243.227.227 Impuppota       davycrokk...@hotmail.com        
        

It would also be interesting for such flagged users to return a list
of associated IP's (such as above) which could be blacklisted as well.

I guess the correct solution would be to use
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Social+Login but
then the spammers would just end up getting twitter, facebook or
foursquare logins and use those instead of hotmail accounts.

-- Niels
http://www.nielsmayer.com
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