Re: coordinated spam attack on wikicreole.org and jspwiki.org

Janne Jalkanen <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:47:03 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jspwiki.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Anyone got an idea how to handle this properly? What is the purpose  
> of adding this gibberish anyways?

JSPWiki 2.5 SpamFilter should be able to stop this.  At least for a  
while.

My guess is that this is really about trying to poison any bayesian  
filters out there.

> Requiring login is no option since this defeats the wiki idea in my  
> opinion. Captchas on every edit should solve the problem but are  
> not too nice either.

...and this bot can register.  I need to clean up the userdatabase  
*often*.

/Janne