Re: [s-d] Wiki Spam

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Feb 2005 at 15:02, Joel Uckelman wrote:

> Thus spake pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > The amount of Wiki spam has been increasing. Can we add ACLs, to at
> > the very least require registration before editing? (I've started to
> > learn MoinMoin's ACL system if whoever's running it needs help.)
> 
> <plug type="shameless">
> I've started doing PhpWiki development again. When I upgraded the
> Nomic Wiki to the current version, wiki spam went from endemic to near
> zero overnight. The key thing for the Nomic Wiki was prohibiting edits
> that add more than n external links, with n small enough to thwart
> spam bots and large enough not to annoy real users. PhpWiki now does
> that by default. </plug>

Just got this far in my back-reading.  I've been getting spam 
on the Movable Type blog I keep on nomic.net too.  Given that 
a bot would have to be tailored to specific types of wiki/blog 
in order to spam it, how the hell are they finding their 
targets?

-- Glotmorf
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