[pmwiki-users] wiki spam and change notify

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Dfaure wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Dfaure <dfaure at cpan.org> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is there a mean to apply the blocklist spam protection to the summary
> >field on pmwiki.org's edit page?
> >
> >It seems that the current trend is to use it to pollute the
> >(All)RecentChanges pages and as a side effect, trigger the email
> >notification.
> >
> 
> To be more precise here, even if the source url is blocked, the
> summary field is altered, and the email notification triggered.

You're correct, the spam checker isn't currently checking the
summary or author fields.

Perhaps we should change blocklist to automatically check all
form input by default, instead of simply checking the text
field...?  I may try this on pmwiki.org and see what we get.

Pm