From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T11:28:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems Wiki Spam

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:37:32 +0900, Patrick May <patrick@hexane.org> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 08:12  PM, Charles Comstock wrote:
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> > Umm all of the rubygems wiki has been overwritten by spam from some
> > casino online.  They are all from the same address so if there is
> > anyway to ban edits from that address that might be helpful.
> > Otherwise I think there needs to be some sort of captcha or other
> > protection on all the rubyforge wiki's before the spammers realize
> > there is a wiki for each entry that they can hit.
> 
> Until Ruby-Forge adds in Deny directives, you can help by restoring the
> last good revision of a page.
> 


This is a problem that Wikis all over the web seem to be facing. 
Anyone seen a really good general solution?  I guess not allowing
edits would be one, but that would be a shame.

Chad