[pmwiki-users] Re: what is the best way to clear out spammer droppings

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-08-11  02:12 PM -0500, Ben Wilson is rumored to have said:
> > Now that the blocklist is working again and our recent spammer has been
> > slowed down (stopped??), what is (are)  the best way(s) to remove their
> > droppings?
>
>I would think that a script that detects many added links that on a
>page that lack approval would be a sure fire way to detect.

That probably wouldn't work well in this case, because the spammer has put 
only 3 links per page, but they put them on over 200 pages.


>The next step would be to remove the entry--not just restore from a
>previous version, but to eradicate the spam dropping from the page's
>history.

Removing entirely requires FTP access to the page -  not available to 
mortals on pmwiki.org.

Nevertheless, how does one automate the removal if one has FTP access? And 
what can be done on sites where you are limited to browser access? I am not 
asking what to do, but how to do it efficiently.


Neil

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