Does this mean that to stop the spam attacks I just have to add this
line or is there some other things that have to be done as well?
Laurie
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$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:\s*auto/";
Works fine.
Paul
On 12/12/05, admin Yellowikis <yellowikis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Rick.
On 12/12/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/05, admin Yellowikis <yellowikis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > We've been attacked too - It also adds a long list of links to
> >
http://buy-ativan.fil.ph lower on the page.
>
> > we had:
>
> >
$wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/";
>
> > in LocalSettings.php
>
> > but an extra space has been added
after the ...overflow: auto....
>
> > so now we have both
> > $wgSpamRegex="/overflow:auto/";
> > $wgSpamRegex="/overflow: auto/";
> Of course since $wgSpamRegex is a scalar,
only the second value will
> be in effect, overwriting the first.
> I think that something like
> $wgSpamRegex="/overflow:\s*auto/
> would work. The \s* matches zero or more
whitespace characters.
This
> might be slightly off since I'm not
completely up on php regex
pattern
syntax.
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