From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T22:10:20+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 9:53:53 PM, Chad wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:29:04 +0900, James Britt
> <jamesunderbarb@neurogami.com> wrote:
>> The rubygarden wiki has been over-run with spam links.
>> 
>> 220.163.37.233 is one of the offending source IP addresss.
>> 
>> I fixed the home page, and then saw the extent of the crap.  Looks like
>> many personal pages have been altered.
>> 
>> Those with user pages may want to go check their own page to assist with
>> the clean up.
>> 

> I've got a list, but it has become obvious that maintaining a list
> manually isn't going to work.  I'm tempted to require registration and
> authentication at this point as much as I hate the thought.

There are other, less intrusive, ways of combatting wiki spam.  Why
not be tempted by one of those instead?

Gavin