Re: Spam?

As far as the wiki is concerned, SWN _needs_ to enable antispam.py.  When
I check RecentChanges, a very good portion of it is a couple good-hearted
souls reverting saved pages. The wiki can still be open, it can just be
smart enough to not allow spammers/spambots to save pages when their URLs
match anything in the blacklist.  If a few new ones slip through the
filters, you can add the domain names, etc., into LocalBadContent (regex
filtering).  Personal Telco has been using this feature for a good 6
months now with great success.  I've just checked and there have been
10744 save attempts to the wiki that have been caught by these filters.

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamGlobalSolution

Just something to consider,
-Jason

> I agree. It's probably just a single simple setting that needs to be
> changed, so I don't see much cause for offhand dismissals or debate. We
> have a chance to remove one vector, if only a fairly small one, by which
> spammers can get their email list lifeblood.
>
> Why not take it? The effort involved is comparatively slight, and it
> only serves to encourage participation in SWN. (And that's a good
> thing.) After all, we are a community served by having many and
> knowledgeable members -- and to dismiss the more spam-hating ones out of
> what appears to be just laziness is... just bad.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 2:21 am, Meaniemail wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:17 -0700, Matt Beland wrote:
>>>  Besides - an open forum, such as this list, for an open
>>>  group, such as SeattleWireless - so open they leave anonymous write
>>>  available on the Wiki - deliberately blocking access to the archives
>>>  or
>>>  munging mail addresses? Heh. Even if those measures were effective -
>>>  and
>>>  they're not, just so we're clear - don't you think that'd look kinda
>>>  silly?
>>
>> No, I don't, because this is a mailing list, not a ULTIMATE BULLETIN
>> BOARD =| =) =(
>>
>> I am not trying to start a flame war, but are you just being an ass? I
>> believe there is a reasonable expectation of data security/privacy on
>> any access to servers that requires registration, or a password. Which
>> we all did to get on this list. why is this such a hard concept?
>>
>> hi, I am user/customer, I want to use your service, but don't puke my
>> information all over the internet(s)
>>
>> this is a deal breaker for me, if the prevailing opinion is apathy, I
>> am
>> done
>>
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