The "wikidown" address just got spammed. Since there's no way to get off of spammers' lists once on, that pretty much demands that we change it. Further, whatever means we are using to announce that address to human beings should probably be fixed to make it less friendly to address-sucking bots.
The "wikidown" address just got spammed. Since there's no way to get off of spammers' lists once on, that pretty much demands that we change it. Further, whatever means we are using to announce that address to human beings should probably be fixed to make it less friendly to address-sucking bots.
What about spamassassin? It's a pretty decent filter that should catch most of the spam. Getting and staying off spammers' lists seems like a futile exercise, and many people have now memorized the wikidown address.
Regard,
Erik
erik_moeller@gmx.de (Erik Moeller) writes:
What about spamassassin? It's a pretty decent filter that should catch most of the spam. Getting and staying off spammers' lists seems like a futile exercise, and many people have now memorized the wikidown address.
Yes, that's the right approach to solve the problem. Last month I started using bogofilter and I'm pleased by it. bogofilter isn't that resource hungry as spamass*ssin (which isn't a nice name either).
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
The "wikidown" address just got spammed. Since there's no way to get off of spammers' lists once on, that pretty much demands that we change it. Further, whatever means we are using to announce that address to human beings should probably be fixed to make it less friendly to address-sucking bots.
Would it be possible to have somebody (or somebodies) from outside Bomis run chronjobs that regularly check whether Wikpedia is down, then paging you if it turns out that it is? If that works, then we'd never have to publish a special address.
-- Toby
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