[Mediawiki-l] SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away

[Samuel Richardson]

It's a pretty narrow view to take of Captchas. As I said before, the
reCaptcha plug-in still allows anonymous edits, it only requires code entry
if that captcha has an external link or the visitor is trying to create a
new user on the wiki.

I run a reasonably popular wiki, around 2000 visitors per day, and I've
never had a single spam edit since I installed the plug-in a couple of years
ago.

Thanks,

Samuel Richardson
Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:

> Hallo, Michael,
>
> Du (michael.daly) meintest am 29.09.08:
>
> > I see you've been putting all the offending IPs into the blocked IP
> > list.  That has limited value since the IPs of spammers change so
> > often.
>
> I use the CIDR notation - that's enough for x.y.z.w/16 nets.
>
> > You could try installing a Captcha extension.  If the spammer is a
> > bot, they tend to be stopped by that.
>
> Captcha is evil. It blocks the good guys very well, and it blocks the
> bad guys poorly (is that english? please excuse my gerlish)
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
>
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