On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Daniel Friesen
wrote:
[...]
> Sure enough after a bit I started seeing the same spam,
>
Perhaps it is a bit draconian, but on my wiki, when I get spam, I use
checkuser to get their ip. I block their whole /24 subnet. I then go look
at the spam they left me, and
>> Kay Diederichs wrote:
> I found that
> To:gmail.com REJECT
> (with one or multiple tabs where the blank appears in the line above)
> seems to work well when appended to /etc/mail/access which is used by
> sendmail on my CentOS-5.5 machine. Nota bene: only wikis are on this
> machine, so it's
Am 17.03.2011 22:06, schrieb Platonides:
> Daniel Friesen wrote:
>> The spammers haven't coded the bots to handle QuestyCaptcha yet, but if
>> people start using it to stop them, then they will code it into the bot.
>
> Questy captcha is a free form question. You can't learn how to bypass
> a
Daniel Friesen wrote:
> The spammers haven't coded the bots to handle QuestyCaptcha yet, but if
> people start using it to stop them, then they will code it into the bot.
Questy captcha is a free form question. You can't learn how to bypass
any instance of it. Not even a human would be able to b
On 11-03-16 04:35 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
>
>> What prevents the black hat google spammers from creating OpenID accounts ?
>>
>> --Hiram
>>
>> Frederick Grose wrote:
>>> Install
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
>>> and di
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> What prevents the black hat google spammers from creating OpenID accounts ?
>
> --Hiram
>
> Frederick Grose wrote:
> > Install
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
> > and disable new account creation, instead, redirect users t
What prevents the black hat google spammers from creating OpenID accounts ?
--Hiram
Frederick Grose wrote:
> Install
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
> and disable new account creation, instead, redirect users to the OpenID
> account page,
> Special:OpenIDLogin.
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wiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
>
> Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:47 AM
> Try QuestyCaptcha*. It has been
> stopping spammers on my wiki that
> reCaptcha failed to.
>
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/w
Try QuestyCaptcha*. It has been stopping spammers on my wiki that
reCaptcha failed to.
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ConfirmEdit#QuestyCaptcha
Roger
TEFLChina.org, wiki for teachers of English as a foreign language in China
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Chris Lewis wrote:
> Yes I have the same problem. So annoying. Are humans confirming the emails
> as
> well?
>
> I have captcha, email confirmation and the SpamBlacklist extension and i'm
> still
> getting spammed every day for the last week. They keep making new a
At this stage I've blocked the function for users to create accounts
themselves... They complete a form on the website, and I receive an
email, then I create the account for them. Before I create the account,
I normally contact them to determine if they are a genuine prospective
users... It see
Yes I have the same problem. So annoying. Are humans confirming the emails as
well?
I have captcha, email confirmation and the SpamBlacklist extension and i'm
still
getting spammed every day for the last week. They keep making new accounts
every
day. What can I do since they are bypassing all
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:15, Brion Vibber wrote:
> There are service firms
> that simply employ lots of people to type in captchas on your spambot's
> behalf.
A number of porn sites work this way. When someone tries to access
the freebie section of a porn site, they see a captcha. It's copie
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> Good Morning MediaWiki Fans:
>
> Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The
> attack evidently
> had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the
> authorized user email allowed to edit s
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The
> attack evidently
> had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the
> authorized user email allowed to edit setting.
Which CAPTCHA plugin ar
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> Good Morning MediaWiki Fans:
> Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The
> attack evidently
had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the
authorized user email allowed to edit se
Good Morning MediaWiki Fans:
Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The
attack evidently
had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the
authorized user email allowed to edit setting. I'm curious if anyone
else has encountered such attacks a
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