From: Phil Roberts <phil.roberts@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T22:04:04+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden wiki patch

Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> treated the lovely people of
comp.lang.ruby with the following stuff: 

> FYI, I've just implemented this
> http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/General/CautiouslyOptimistic.rdo
> c. Let's see how long it might be effective. With this patch,
> pages with previously valid links WILL NOT SAVE unless you
> uppercase the protocol:// section of the link.  That'll be
> annoying for a while but hopefully not as much as the spam (and
> hopefully this will have an effect for a while).
> 
> The real-time blacklists and any other blacklisting measure seem
> to be almost 0% effective.  Practically none of the spammers
> that have hit us have been listed, and we can't keep up a manual
> list fast enough. 
> 
> Next step is authentication.  I'm ready to put this one to bed.
> 

Hi Chad, should I be seeing these links?:

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