[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 08:32:15 CST 2008


On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 AM, Wendell Brown <wbrown at arkie.net> wrote:
> Tegan Dowling wrote:
> >
> > I used to, but recently discovered that if you take any three recent
> > defacements and look at the IPs used, they're all different.
> If you use the term and put the URL they are trying to spam, any future
> spam with that url will be blocked. It's a lot harder to create new
> url's than to use botnets to change ip addresses. :)

Good idea, when it applies, but oddly enough many of these defacements
don't include links to any URLs  Some of what they post is just
gibberish, and I don't know what the point can be, other than maybe to
exhaust and confuse the defenses.



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