A quick update on the wiki situation:
In the past 4 days since the change, spamming has nearly disappeared. The NOSPAM change has delt a solid blow to the spammers. :-)
However, there has been two cases of spam, to the PastMilestones page, on Nov 26 and again on the 27th. These were by spammers in the .bn.by and .bas-net.by domains, both of which are now blocked. Thus, we're not completely immune. I surmise they may be manually spamming us; this is good because it is something we can deal with effectively through administrative actions (banning, etc.)
A number of pages were added on Nov 23 that need to be deleted. Scislac could you tackle these?
Bryce
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:
Maybe instead of text, do what some e-shopping sites do. Have a pass phrase displayed on an image, and let the person type that in. Then the pass cannot be harvested.
I think the text-based verifier should be sufficient: the important thing is that it should no longer be possible to spam our wiki using *off-the-shelf* automated tools.
Did everyone catch the hashcash story involving wiki's on Slashdot recently?
Beat Spam Using Hashcash http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1811251&tid=111&tid=1...
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