"Matthew Flaschen" matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu wrote in message news:45C963F9.1070803@gatech.edu...
Minh Nguyen wrote:
With spammers, the IP addresses always change (they've gotten good about that over the past few years), so I suppose the best way to control these "scout messages" is to grep [[Special:Newpages]] regularly for telltale page titles (like ".php") and delete on sight.
An admin bot should be able to delete those pages automatically, if someone cares to write it.
Is there a way of telling MW to block certain page names, e.g. to disallow new pages that match the regex "/index.php?title=/i"? If not then this seems like a worthwhile config setting to add.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)