On 5/26/05, Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang(a)thewritingpot.com> wrote:
That sounds very good. I personally maintain a wiki,
and link spammers
are really, really annoying.
Well, I also maintain a wiki, and can pretty confidently say that
there are zombie link spammers now. I had link spam coming from
random IPs, rarely the same twice, but the same spam. Which is to
say, if the spammers get enough zombies, you'll end up blocking a
significant number of innocent (but infected) users.
Although this would only be helpful against
linkspammers that operate
totally automated, otherwise, they'd find the wiki, and they'd think,
"Hey! What's this? I'm not going to spam this!"
On the bright side, almost all spammers are automated, and really, all
the ones that spam in volume are.