Sunny, Why don't you try "Invite Only" option for for site timebeing?

Thanks,
Gaurav

2009/8/4 Sunny Chow <[email protected]>

> Greg, thank you for sharing this banning file with us. I uploaded it and it
> appears to work.
>
> However, I realise that these spam account names are probably auto
> generated and each is unique and may only be used once or a few times each.
> As such, banning them all is a catch-up game and too tiring to keep doing.
>
> What we need is to stop them from registering altogether and the code
> snippet from Evan and the captcha are probably the best solution in my
> opinion. I hope to get both working on my site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sunny
>
> 2009/8/3 Greg Clute <[email protected]>
>
> I'm getting the same spam attack on my site. Eric's reCaptcha plugin
>> doesn't work with web-kit browsers, so I haven't implemented it on my site
>> yet.
>> The latest attack over the past few weeks has been the same 11name99
>> pattern other users are reporting. Thanks for the code to ban
>> certain patterns, I'll put it on my site and give it a try. :)
>>
>> I'd like to be
>> able to setup my site where a user has to verify their email address before 
>> their updates are listed on the public timeline. With
>> my limited scripting knowledge, I know there probably isn't an easy way to
>> do that, but I'd appreciate any ideas.
>>
>> A friend of mine setup an easy way to "ban" users with a script I've
>> attached. It will hide the banned users updates from the public timeline as
>> well as reset their profile and show them as banned.
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, 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
>>>
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