Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Etienne Grossmann wrote:

>  Hi Todd,
>
>I just added a BannedHosts page to the wiki. I will not maintain it or
>clean up after spammers (amongs other things, my wrists have limited
>typing capacity). I will only re-open the wiki if people on this list
>take the responsibility to clean up after spammers. Else, I'll just
>make the front page friendlier.
>  
>

The problem ith a banned host page is that most spammer come in through 
proxies, so they just pick a new proxies and try again.. So a bannedhost 
page is a lame anti-spam measure.. It really needs to be upto date.. If 
you want an effective measure in the same vain, see 
http://blacklist.chongqed.org as a means of preventing links that match 
a certain regex... The people at chongqed keep this upto date, and you 
can see other links on their pages on how to set this up.

Regards
david