[Catalyst] Simple and effective wiki spam prevention

A. Pagaltzis pagaltzis at gmx.de
Sat Apr 8 12:59:51 CEST 2006


* Thomas L. Shinnick <tshinnic at io.com> [2006-04-08 02:00]:
> At 05:56 PM 4/7/2006, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >• The WLUG Wiki rejects edits which contain chinese characters…
> 
> Ah, but please not if you can avoid that. Chunzi and a couple
> others from PerlChina.org have contributed. I'm sure they'll
> understand if it is needed, but wait and see?

I know. I wasn’t seriously proposing that for the Catalyst wiki
for the reason you mentioned. I was just saying that if you have
persistent spammers whose spam has specific and easily
distinguishable characteristics you can sometimes achieve a lot
with very simpleminded approaches.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>



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