[Mediawiki-l] MW v. 1.15.1 - How do I safely delete a user?

[2007 at gmaskfx.com]

Uh.. I guess you didn't read the previous messages about this.. these bots can get around the captchas (see articles about captcha farms in india) and I already have SpamBLacklist installed .. I need TitleBlacklist to block them from spamming useraccounts with words like Viagra etc in them

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Michael Daly <michael.daly at kayakwiki.org> wrote:

> From: Michael Daly <michael.daly at kayakwiki.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MW v. 1.15.1 - How do I safely delete a user?
> To: 2007 at gmaskfx.com, "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 3:15 PM
> 2007 at gmaskfx.com
> wrote:
> 
> > Because these annoying spambots have created at least
> a hundred user accounts
> 
> Install the SpamBLacklist extension and a Captcha extension
> (reCaptcha is one I like and it helps resolve scanned
> document text).  That gets rid of the majority of
> spammers.
> 
> Mike
> 
>