[pmwiki-users] Spam filtering not cutting it

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

On 2006-12-18 David Spitzley is rumoured to have said:
> I'm running the BlogSimple2 recipe along with Blocklist3, and I've 
> got the blocklist filtering the comments (editing is password 
> protected). Unfortunately, in practice all this seems to mean is that 
> every time I clean today's two dozen spam comments off of my site, 
> they contain key terms I haven't seen before. I see that there's a 
> Captcha recipe, but it doesn't appear to integrate into the rest of 
> pmwiki. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to further hinder 
> spam in my comments? 

I found that using URL fragments rather than key words eliminated 
virtually all of the spam on my site.

It is trivial for spammers to provide alt3rnate sp311ing 4 drug names, 
but much harder for them to have an unlimited supply of URLs.

-- 
Neil Herber
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