On 5/26/05, Edward Z. Yang edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com wrote:
That sounds very good. I personally maintain a wiki, and link spammers are really, really annoying.
Well, I also maintain a wiki, and can pretty confidently say that there are zombie link spammers now. I had link spam coming from random IPs, rarely the same twice, but the same spam. Which is to say, if the spammers get enough zombies, you'll end up blocking a significant number of innocent (but infected) users.
Although this would only be helpful against linkspammers that operate totally automated, otherwise, they'd find the wiki, and they'd think, "Hey! What's this? I'm not going to spam this!"
On the bright side, almost all spammers are automated, and really, all the ones that spam in volume are.