I run a spam/virus filtering email relay for some clients and I agree with most of what Richard says:
> Everything that's being discussed has already been done to combat > email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that > work instead of re-inventing it. There is also Akismet which Wordpress users can use. I'm sure there is a lot of work that has been put into blocking spam in blog comments and email that overlaps. I recently discovered a test wiki I had set up and forgotten about had been overrun with spam and started using it to watch the spammers and record their "work". From these observations, I think I like Jamie Thingelstad's idea (partly because, yes, it would persuade people to make sure their wiki is registered at WikiApiary): On 05/24/2013 07:58 PM, Jamie Thingelstad wrote: > One thought I have had is having WikiApiary use a bot account on > remote wikis that wish to participate to fight spammers, revert > changes, ban them, etc. If you could also collect urls added in reverted edits, it seems like those would be good candidates for a shared blacklist. Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. -- G.K. Chesterson _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
