On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, IvorW wrote:
I agree that we need discard_edit(_regex)? immediately. We need a way of blocking a range of IP addresses and/or domains.
so that would be a robots.txt then ?
apache++ # thought of these things already
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bob Walker wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, IvorW wrote:
I agree that we need discard_edit(_regex)? immediately. We need a way of blocking a range of IP addresses and/or domains.
so that would be a robots.txt then ? a
or even .htaccess. i blame rt and exim they are messing with my head.
apache++ # thought of these things already
I agree that we need discard_edit(_regex)? immediately. We need a way of blocking a range of IP addresses and/or domains.
bob suggests....
or even .htaccess. i blame rt and exim they are messing with my head.
I'm running Usemod for Project Galactic Guide (for historical reasons) and the level of Wiki spam has increased dramatically there too.
Is it worth coming up with a system for sharing a blacklist of spammers IP addresses or should we all just trawl through the logs manually (or use the UI?)
Presumably the easiest way of doing this from an admin point of view might be to have a "superuser" function on the site so that you can add the IP address of a spammer directly into the blacklist. (However you mustn't make that public of course else people would blacklist real users).
What are people's thoughts on this?
Have you produced a .htaccess file yet?
Alex
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:25:36PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
I agree that we need discard_edit(_regex)? immediately. We need a way of blocking a range of IP addresses and/or domains.
bob suggests....
or even .htaccess. i blame rt and exim they are messing with my head.
I'm running Usemod for Project Galactic Guide (for historical reasons) and the level of Wiki spam has increased dramatically there too.
Is it worth coming up with a system for sharing a blacklist of spammers IP addresses or should we all just trawl through the logs manually (or use the UI?)
Presumably the easiest way of doing this from an admin point of view might be to have a "superuser" function on the site so that you can add the IP address of a spammer directly into the blacklist. (However you mustn't make that public of course else people would blacklist real users).
Movable Type people use something called MT-Blacklist which has a shared blacklist, it's successful if only for the simplicity of removing spam.
http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
Stephen
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