[ale] Ouch damnit

[Jim]

What about a challenge/response system to initially make sure there's a 
intelligence behind the poster, then either a cookie or store the ip 
address of the user so he/she can bypass it next time?  I'm not familiar 
with all the tricks the spammers use but it doesn't seem like they'd 
take the time to actually interface with the site.

My blog was spammed by a German porn shop, so I had to turn on registration.

Jim.
Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Hmm. Yeah, I'm thinking about it. As you probably know, TWiki is 
> written in perl. I really like the homebrew filtering system  I have 
> in place on the dart roller guestbook. It catches approximately all 
> spam but has not had any false positives. The list of filter words is 
> up to 48 entries now.
>
> Alas, those guys are pretty way stupid so it's easy to filter 'em out. 
> I'm not sure about these folks. I took a look at the web pages and 
> they were using a semi-sophisticated javascript redirect to pull 
> pictures into the browser from the html pages they loaded on my 
> server. Pig-screwers.
>
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On 8/3/06, *Watson, Keith R.* <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu 
> <mailto:krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>> wrote:
>
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>     [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf Of
>     > Charles Shapiro
>     > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 09:23
>     > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>     > Subject: [ale] Ouch damnit
>     >
>     > Porn spammers have discovered the ALE wiki. I just spent 20 minutes
>     > manually deleting about fifteen pornographic web page
>     attachments from
>     the
>     > ALE WebHome page.
>     >
>     > To deal with this I may have to implement an approval process
>     for wiki
>     > posts. I'm also looking on TWiki.org (http://twiki.org) for a less
>     > draconian solution.
>     >
>     > Y'all have any other thoughts?
>     >
>     > -- CHHS
>     >
>
>
>     Charles,
>
>     We run quite a few wikis and swikis and have been battling the same
>     problem. So far the best solution has been requiring a password to
>     post.
>     Most of the wiki spam is disseminated via an automated process. So if
>     you can create a process that requires a human to register and get a
>     password it puts a serious damper on wiki spam. This is a pain for
>     people who want to post but it eliminates the need to moderate every
>     entry.
>
>     Let's trade notes and maybe we can come up with a fix for the ALE wiki
>     that doesn't inconvenience us to badly but rally puts a crimp in the
>     wiki spammers day.
>
>     keith
>
>     --
>
>     Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
>     Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
>     keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu
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>     (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280
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