WikiSpam

Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.schematics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thought this may be relevant to our current
discussion.  It is worth reading 

  http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikiSpam

N.

--- [email protected] wrote:
> Message: 1
>    Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:24:28 -0700
>    From: Peter Thoeny <[email protected]>
> Subject: WikiSpam alert
> 
> Hi Wikiers,
> 
> at TWiki.org we had WikiSpam three times, done by
> the
> same person/group (judging from the IP address). In 
> total, around 200 pages have been spammed with a set
> 
> of the same URLs, apparently to raise the Google
> ranking.
> 
> You can read the details in
> http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikiSpam
> 
> We have a solution for public TWiki sites: Install
> the
> BlackListPlugin that puts black sheep automatically
> on a ban-list on suspicious activities,
>
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/BlackListPlugin
> 
> Now, this morning I got an e-mail, most likely from
> the 
> person who spammed TWiki.org (same name, same IP 
> subnet[2]), soliciting support for a Wiki he intends
> to 
> setup. Beware in case you get contacted by that
> person!
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> 
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>   From: "Hasit Ruparel" <[email protected]>
>   To: <[email protected]>
>   Subject: help for new wiki


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