Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

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Author: Simon Capstick
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To: adrian, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes


Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Due do a recent spate of attacks on the wiki, we've made a few changes.
>
> I did write a simple anti-spam thing (basically watching percentage of
> links to text on a page), but that's currently in "log only" mode.
>
> However I've just tied it into "our very own" Steve Kemps's
> blogspam.net service so we'll see how that goes.
>
> Please shout if you have any problems - it will say "SPAM blocked" (we
> don't want to tell spammers _why_ we block them but we do log the
> reasons).
>
> Finally a big thanks to Ciemon for doing a whole bunch of roll backs
> on the wiki.
>
> Adrian


Just had my minor edits blocked...

SPAM blocked for LinuxHints/XenOnEtch

My IP's static if that's any help to you.

Thanks,

Simon