From: Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Date: 2004-10-24T22:24:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden Spam

David Ross wrote:

> These spam attacks are ridiculous. There needs to be a type of honeypot
> system. I'm still curious how these spammers are working, through manual
> or bot. Logs or explaination would help.

They are probably using HttpUnit to "test" Wikis.

> I still think setting a link to trap the spammer in thier own db where
> no public changes are made and they view thier  changes are the better
idea.

Preventing a series of changes from the same IP might raise the bar.
Preventing the same text appearing on different pages would too.

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  Phlip
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