Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wiki spam and the future of phpwiki

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Frankowski wrote:
> 
> 1. Don't allow saving a page that has more than 20 external ("http://") 
> links. In our code, I modified "20" to be a configurable parameter 
> SPAM_MAX_EXTERNAL_LINKS. We've been completely spammed as well, and I 
> believe this will help us a lot. We have a wiki where each legitimate 
> page only contains a few external links, but spam pages contain tons 
> (>50 for sure) external links.

I'd like to implement this modification. Would you be kind enough to send
it to me? 

I have three working PhpWikis but two (with a progressive
political orientation) of them I have only open blogging but otherwise
editing is now turned off due to excessive spamming. I just installed a
third Wiki to play with and haven't decided yet what to do with it.

I am just waiting to see how long it takes for spam to find the new open 
Wiki and I suspect it won't be long (g). 

I also want to explore other methods for securing Wiki from spambots 
(intentional spammers are much easier to deal with) so I have been 
following these discussions with much interest.

Hank Roth