I'm also facing this issue on my Laconica instance at www.tweetlah.sg. Checking the awstats log, I can see that these spammers are searching for the keyphrase "Laconica <http://laconi.ca/> microblogging software" which is in the footer of each installation, in order to find sites to spam.
One way I can think of to prevent such spammers from finding my Laconica site is to encrypt this keyphrase (as done for email addresses, etc). I used the online form at http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html to encode this keyphrase in 'character entities': laconica microblogging software I understand this is not totally foolproof but its something at least, until a more foolproof and effective solution is found for us, especially non-techies like me :) Just one question: Will encrpyting it this way violate any of the terms of usage? Regards Sunny On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>wrote: > egasus egasus wrote: > >> >> Same here >> now i am getting a similar spam attack.. >> >> > OK, that's definitely very serious. > > First thing I'd suggest is using Eric Helgeson's reCaptcha plugin for > registration: > > > http://gitorious.org/~erichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin<http://gitorious.org/%7Eerichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin>< > http://gitorious.org/%7Eerichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin > > > > I haven't tried it or tested it but it's probably the best thing to use > right now. > > Second, if you're sure there's a pattern in the user names, try this > snippet of code in config.php: > > http://pastebin.ca/1516064 > > Change the $nicknamePatterns global variable to suit your needs. > > Clearly we have a lot of work to do on the spamming end; at the very least > we need plugins to support context-oriented tools like Bad Behaviour and > SURBL as well as content-oriented tools like Bayesian filters, blocklists, > Akismet, Mollom, and Defensio. More captcha tools and intelligence tests are > probably worthwhile, too. > > -Evan > > -- > Evan Prodromou > CEO, Control Yourself, Inc. > [email protected] - http://identi.ca/evan - +1-514-554-3826 > > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev >
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