On 7 Nov 2005, at 13:17, mediawiki-l-request@Wikimedia.org wrote:
From: "Tony Molloy" tony.molloy@uconn.edu
Also, all of the accounts created by our spammer have invalid e-mail addresses. If something could verify that the e-mail was legit before enabling the account, that would be useful as well.
My vote is for mail-back authorization on account creation. Maybe I'll just do it...
One way that I've eliminated ALL spam is strictly by accident: I changed the account creation page. I wanted to have first/last name fields, which I then concat to make the user name. This apparently confuses spambots enough that they don't even bother.
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