[Mediawiki-l] jibberish

[2007 at gmask.com]

--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:

> This gibberish spam doesn't make much sense, pardon the pun. The
> spambot 
> isn't inserting any actual links. My wikis are getting spammed with 
> short text strings like "copasnotra" and "romonboel". Based on my 
> limited understanding of spambots, it seems like the bots are making 
> these changes as a prelude to doing something else.

This is what is happening to me as well.. but the inserted words are
allways at the beginning of the page which gives me hope in blocking
these types of bot edits with a regex.


-adrian