ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
Take a look here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers
Okay, I see:
1) Two good users, who've made nice edits; just the kind we want.
2) An obvious spammer, with a name pattern of "### buy something"
What I don't see is other useful info to detect bogus accounts, like IP
addresses, and email addresses, but I assume those are available to a
sysop, and suppressed on this special page for privacy reasons. What
would be nice to see, and could be public, is a flag of "verified
email", or not. (Obviously, the users who make edits have verified
addresses, but what about the rest?)
I get almost zero spam (< 1/month). Maybe it's because when I /do/ get
one, I go after it tooth and nail, complaining to the ISP per [1].
[1] http://www.abuse.net/
Maybe if we did that, we'd get an evil rep among spammers, and they'd
avoid us. I'm willing to put in some time doing this, if I can have
whatever access might be required (and a little coaching :-) ). I'm a
dustpan-and-broom kind of guy, and this is cleaning up the whole Internet.
I brought up the idea of adding a Captcha for new user registrations,
but there was no real definitive answer or agreement on that one.
W/r/t/ Captcha, extensions, &c, I suggest you try one for a week or so,
and look at your logs (and the complaints, if any). If it's not
effective, or draws too many complaints, this is a wiki :-) You can
remove it. I would consider it a side benefit, that spammers who break
through those precautions are more worth going after.
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/tj/
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