From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T03:28:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Garden Spam

Curt Hibbs wrote:

>Jim Weirich wrote:
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>>On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:36 am, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
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>>>I agree and CAPTCHA was my first suggestion. But the general 
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>>take seemed to
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>>>be against it, siting reasons of use and implementation, and 
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>>that spammers
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>>>would just find a way around it. I'm not so sure about these points, but
>>>nonetheless pre-moderating pages with new external links is 
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>>simple enough
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>>>and 100% effective.
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>>I am trying an experiment on my wikis (UseMod based) where I require all 
>>external links to be written HTTP://host/yada rather than 
>>http://host/yada.  
>>Any page with a lower case http link is rejected (with a message 
>>directing 
>>the user to an explaination).  The patch to usemod effected only 
>>a few lines 
>>of code.  And although the measure is simple to circumvent, it 
>>has cut down 
>>spam on my wikis to about one incident a week.  I believe Tom has 
>>implemented 
>>this patch on some (all?) the rubyforge project wikis with some 
>>success as 
>>well.
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>Tom has implemented this for at least 5 of the RubyForge projects in which I am involved. It has had a 100% successes rate in stopping the spam (so far). This is a temporary measure until we switch over to Ruwiki for RubyForge. 
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>Austin is adding authentication to Ruwiki and Tom is integrating that into RubyForge's login, so you'll have to be logged-in to RubyForge to edit pages.
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>Curt
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I think having to be logged in to edit a wiki is good. Can't wait for 
the full conversion.

David Ross
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