[pmwiki-users] Re: what is the best way to clear out spammer droppings
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Aug 11 14:50:08 CDT 2005
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:12:45PM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote:
> > From: Neil Herber <nospam at eton.ca>
> >
> > Now that the blocklist is working again and our recent spammer has been
> > slowed down (stopped??), what is (are) the best way(s) to remove their
> > droppings?
>
> I would think that a script that detects many added links that on a
> page that lack approval would be a sure fire way to detect.
PmWiki already does this, and blocks posts that have more than a certain
number of unapproved links. That's why this particular spammer wasn't
able to fill pages with unapproved links but had to limit to a small
number of links on each page.
Pm
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