From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T01:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Wiki spam

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 18:31 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> As many people will know, the RubyGarden wiki
> (http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby) has been under constant spam attacks for
> a while now.  Does anyone have any idea how to prevent these attacks?

Yes. Alter the engine so that external URLs go to a non-indexed-by-
search-engines "leaving the site" page. It effectively kills any
pagerank that adding a link would add to the linkee. That's both good
and bad, but it's a short-term solution.

It may be that a simple HTTP redirect script would work, too, but I'm
not sure.

Ari