[Mediawiki-l] SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away

[Platonides]

Helmut Hullen 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

Interesting approach: "As captcha blocks the good guys, it's better to 
block the subnet"
Still, it could be merged as "evensofterblocks", where the user can 
edit, but needs to fill a captcha which it usually doesn.t