[Mediawiki-l] Re: boards2go spam attack

[Sterling D. Allan]

What happens to pages where the <div command is already in place, 
legitimately?

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From: "Arthur Guy" <Arthur at assys.net>
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Isn't the overflow:auto attribute used within div tags?
If it is then all you have to do is block <div.

-Arthur

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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tor Kinlok
Sent: 13 December 2005 15:37
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Is there any way to block both '<div' and 'overflow:\s*auto'?

We've been getting inundated with both.

On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> once I set
>
> $wgSpamRegex="/<div/";
>
> I had no more automated spam attacks. This blocks users from entering
> '<div', which might be bad, but I had no complaints yet.
>
> Patrick
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