Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki

[Todd N. <to...@gm...>]

> 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.
> 

Those regex's can be put in the BannedContent page and that would
prevent those sites from being advertised.  I don't know how often
http://blacklist.chongqed.org is updated but we could grab the list
from EmacsWiki to start off with as well.

It looks like all that is needed now is for a few volunteers to get an
admin password so they can modify the BannedContent and BannedHosts
page and check the wiki daily for new spam.

Todd