From: Jim Weirich Date: 2004-11-11T11:05:20+09:00 Subject: Re: A Wiki/Spam Report On Wednesday 10 November 2004 08:12 pm, Bill Kelly wrote: > From: "Jim Weirich" > > > (3) Detecting the addition of links is difficult because the change is > > submitted to the wiki as a whole page, with nothing to distinguish the > > new material from the old. To determine that we would have to run a diff > > algorithm between the old and new content. > > How about: [... perl code thankfully elided ...] I should know better than complain about a programming task on a programmer's mailing list. Thanks for the perl code (still shuddering). I'll keep it in handy. I just might end up using it. -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)