On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Presumably some percentage of that 20-50% will come back as the > > spammers realize they have to supply the string. Presumably we > > then start playing whack-a-mole. > > Yes, we will ban all IPs participating in this. > Guess it's just a matter of time until *reading* Wikipedia is unavailable to large portions of the world. > Presumably there's a plan for what to do when the spammers begin > > supplying a new, random string every time. > > Random strings are easy to identify, fixed strings are easy to verify. > And "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT <http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents.asp#>5.1)", is pretty much useless, unless you've already identified the spammer through some other process. > (I do worry about where this is going, though.) > > Going where it always goes, proper operations of the website. Been there, > done that. > Do any of the other major websites completely block traffic when they see blank user agents? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
