On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Clayton ccornell@openoffice.org wrote:
I'm busy tidying up spam on the OOoWiki on a fairly regular basis. The OOoWiki uses several tools to block/stop spammers (BadBehavior, the spam RegEx etc.)... it's working most of the time, but the spammers still get in and vandalize pages several times per week. I've been poking around and discovered that a lot of the spammers (who create an account just to post a URL link) are using Mailinator dot com to create a one-time-use throwaway email address to receive the Wiki user authentication email.
Is there any practical way of blocking new users from using specific services like Mailinator? Is there a better way of dealing with situations like this?
C.
The OpenID authentication service, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID seems to deal with these situations effectively.