[Pmwiki-users] More anti-spam ideas

[Crisses]

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> From: Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz>
> Date: June 7, 2004 9:36:59 PM EDT
> To: Crisses <crisses at ofobscurity.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] More anti-spam ideas
>
> You may want to resend to the list :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:16:33PM -0400, Crisses wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2004, at 5:37 AM, Robin wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:59, Gregory Watts wrote:
>>>> An other idea: forbid external links in the sand box?
>>> While this may be valid in some ways, it has the potential to lead to
>>> badness,
>>> such as spammers then using the main page (although, less likely, as
>>> that
>>> would be noticed) or some other page. Not to say it is a bad idea,
>>> just to
>>> highlight a possible issue.
>>
>> I had that happen a number of times before the spammers caught on to
>> the Sandbox.
>>
>>> The banning of specific links works as a reactionary measure (you
>>> could also
>>> expand the idea into a simple content filter, if you liked). I have
>>> also seen
>>> the idea of having anything in a non-approved list of sites having to
>>> be run
>>> by an admin-type before that particular link is 'accepted' (I've been
>>> reading
>>> about this over the past few days, it's a subject I find quite
>>> interesting.
>>> I'm one of those people who collects email spam to play with filters,
>>> and see
>>> where it came from, and so on:)
>>
>> I mostly like the idea of an approved list, but I'd most prefer if the
>> wiki emailled me the way it emails me with page updates -- i.e. it
>> emails the admin when there are links that need to be approved (or the
>> email it currently sends me notes that there are links to be approved
>> on the page(s) in question).
>>
>> Crisses
>
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