From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T06:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

Tom Copeland wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:31, Jim Weirich wrote:
>  
>
>>>The tricky bit is that we're running UseMod 0.91 on RubyForge and the
>>>patch is for UseMod 1.0.  And upgrading UseMod is a bit of an involved
>>>process - I can't see a good way to do it with a script.  So I may have
>>>to do it Wiki by Wiki... argh...
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>If you would like, I'd be glad to adapt the patch for 0.91.  The patch is
>>pretty simple minded, so it shouldn't be hard.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Jim -
>
>That'd be cool!  Actually, I should give it a whirl myself... at one
>point I flailed around with Perl a bit...
>  
>
>Yours,
>
>Tom
>  
>

So is that the plan of action? I know I could talk over irc but you 
disappear *poof*. I am starting to dislike how open wikis are to abuse 
:( I wonder how wikipedia blocks spam.. only one way to find out. :)
/me joins freenode channel for wikipedia

okay. #1 comment from me.. block open proxies. I could give you a whole 
list of common and specal ports that are in use by attackers.
*yes yes.. I am not talking just about ports like 80,8080, 1080, 3128, 
there are more ports that crackers actually use *duh*

-- from #wikipedia
#2  mandatory time limit between edits
#3 look at mediawiki in editpage.php - spam regex  $wgSpamRegex