From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T23:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:02:03 +0900, Gavin Sinclair
<gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:

> As Mr. Burns would say, "Ex-cell-ent".
> 
> I suspect that particular patch will be insufficient against sustained
> attacks, because some of them will be deemed acceptable, because they
> will use "HTTP" instead of "http".  Still, it's a start, and one that
> can be tailored.

which led to the odd thought, ok, make it case insensitive (which got a chuckle)
which led to... on edit: gsub(/http:/i, 'spam:') on display:
gsub(/link:/, 'http:')

tough to implement (would need to modify current content)
nuisance to users, as they'd have to learn new link method.
easily defeated

that said, it's still a thought, and worth sharing.  could inspire
other thoughts..

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)