Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Vegan Oxford is majorly spammed

This one time, at band camp, Christopher Schmidt wrote: That doesn't seem to be working. Google cache: http://tinyurl.com/66gek This is a nice blacklist of regexes for Wiki spammers: http://blacklist.chongqed.org/ Of course, it's the wrong approach. It's not scalable in the same manner as scalability problems with RSS. Having a delay between refreshes to combat scalability issues means you could get spammed by an already-known spammer. Should be some database that is query/response based where your Wiki submits all the URLs and gets a boolean reply. RBL-style approach. Some very basic, quick-and-dirty regexes could possibly solve much of the problem. Look for the drugs, gambling games and watch brands they're pushing. Instead of giving a "this is spam, rejected" message, give a cryptic technical-sounding error like "server timeout" or "internal server error". -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw