On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org> wrote:
I run a spam/virus filtering email relay for some
clients and I agree
with most of what Richard says:
Everything that's being discussed has already
been done to combat
email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that
work instead of re-inventing it.
There is also Akismet which Wordpress users can use. I'm sure there is
a lot of work that has been put into blocking spam in blog comments and
email that overlaps.
I recently discovered a test wiki I had set up and forgotten about had
been overrun with spam and started using it to watch the spammers and
record their "work".
From these observations, I think I like Jamie Thingelstad's idea (partly
because, yes, it would persuade people to make sure their wiki is
registered at WikiApiary):
On 05/24/2013 07:58 PM, Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
One thought I have had is having WikiApiary use a
bot account on
remote wikis that wish to participate to fight spammers, revert
changes, ban them, etc.
If you could also collect urls added in reverted edits, it seems like
those would be good candidates for a shared blacklist.
The SpamBlacklist list of banned urls is pulled by default (iirc,
although if not there is an example of pointing to the list somewhere
I can dig up) from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist. So
everyone is free to benefit from that list, which is regularly
updated. But yeah, ideally it would be great to have the ability for
any wiki to be able to add links back to the list automatically, and
have the links ranked based on some trust metric.
Mark.
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is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.
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