From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T00:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:39:59 +0900, James Britt
<jamesunderbarb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> If the spam is entered by a script, then the wiki code should be able to
> use some simple heuristics to block the most annoying crap.
> 
> For example, if the diff from the old page to the new page is greater
> than some percentage, or if the new page contains X number of links to
> the same site.

That's more or less the idea behind an "entropy" value that gets saved
on a page right now -- I haven't figured out exactly what I'm going to
do with it, but it offers interesting possibilities.

-austin
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