Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dmitry M. schrieb:

> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:15:12PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>Excluding the SandBox (robots.txt) is a very good idea.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand. Why is the SandBox being singled out? It
> seems like pretty much any (unlocked) well-linked page could be abused
> in this way.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Yes, that spammers are very lazy, and typically only edit the SandBox.

Which is a luck for us because we even have a PhpWikiAdministration 
button to rake the sandbox, which can be done periodically and 
automatically.

And the Sandbox is for sure linked from the HomePage, so it gets higher 
google ranks then other pages, which the spammer doesn't know by
a short look (or an automatic script)
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/