From: Chris K. <ck...@ck...> - 2011-04-27 14:45:51
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On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Brandon wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 15:17 -0700, Kevin Nehls wrote: >> I'm not sure how well the email confirmation is working. There appear >> to be a good chunk of spammers who have recently signed up. > > I develop and manage websites. Lately there have been many cases of > spam systems capable of handling email confirmation requirements. > > Who knows. Maybe the spammers have bullpens full of folks that manually > reply. Like the bullpens full of folks playing Second-whatever for the > gold. Yup, they're confirming their e-mail addresses. We're working on a way to plug auth from codex into gallery.menalto.com which will hopefully help fight this because the tools spammers use hopefully aren't used to a combination of Drupal+Mediawiki. -Chris |