On 05/12/06, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
If we could check the spam blacklist against something a little less processed than external links, it might work. Is there any reason why the blacklist isn't just compared to the raw Mediawiki text?
Because it opens up several loopholes which allow users to circumvent the blacklist; this is in fact the reason we switched over to post-parse information.
Rob Church