[pmwiki-users] How To Help Fight Spam on PmWiki.org

[Chris Cox]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:02:58PM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
>> Pico wrote:
>> ...
>>> (4) Blocklist: This is *the most important step*.  
>>> If you fix a spammed page, particularly where PmWiki content 
>>> was totally overwritten by spam, then you can, and *should* 
>>> add the spammer's IP address to the block list at Site.Blocklist.  
>> Perhaps most important, but also most FLAWED.  Don't do this unless you
>> can correcty identify the netblock or IP and know that it is not
>> a dynamic IP (chances are, you won't know this info).
>>
>> Better solution is to implement a site wide password for edits.  Any
>> spamming beyond that perhaps can be handled with more extreme
>> measures.
> 
> I think that Pico's instructions are really focused for
> dealing with spam on pmwiki.org, where we aren't likely to be 
> implementing a site-wide password anytime soon.
> 
> As far as dealing with dynamic IPs; I'm not too concerned yet
> about the difference between IPs at the /24 netmask level.
> I.e., if someone at 24.1.26.127 posts spam to the board, then
> it's fine for now to go ahead and block everyone at 24.1.26.* .
> As far as I know it hasn't posed a real problem in terms of
> blocking legitimate posters, and if it does we'll deal with 
> it then.

Just be very, very careful.  You wouldn't believe how
many places block by IP and affect roadrunner and comcast (for example)
users.