Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-17 Thread Pico Ben-Amotz
On 10/16/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:41:29PM -0400, drew wrote: Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? Another stopgap measure (suggested

Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-16 Thread drew
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: Is it time to consider a new approach to dealing with spam bots posting on pmwiki.org? There seems to be more spam than ever before with fewer patterns in terms of ip addresses. Since it appears that

Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-16 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:41:29PM -0400, drew wrote: Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? Another stopgap measure (suggested by Crisses) may be to try using a honeypot on pmwiki.org to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-16 Thread The Editor
Pm, Farther down on the same digg page there was this suggesting made in passing that might be helpful. Just a thought... Provided you post back to the same page the easiest method is to check the HTTP Referrer and if it's not the correct page or blank then don't allow it, or flag it to be

Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:07AM -0700, Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: Is it time to consider a new approach to dealing with spam bots posting on pmwiki.org? There seems to be more spam than ever before with fewer patterns in terms of ip addresses. Since it appears that much of the spam is being

Re: [pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-14 Thread Anno
Pico Ben-Amotz wrote: Is it time to consider a new approach to dealing with spam bots posting on pmwiki.org? There seems to be more spam than ever before with fewer patterns in terms of ip addresses. Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? Pico I very much agree, there needs to be a

[pmwiki-users] Spam bots on PmWiki.org

2007-10-11 Thread Pico Ben-Amotz
Is it time to consider a new approach to dealing with spam bots posting on pmwiki.org? There seems to be more spam than ever before with fewer patterns in terms of ip addresses. Is it time to consider adding a captcha recipe? Pico ___ pmwiki-users