[Moin-user] Link spam protection for public wikis (Uncomment to enable)

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 26 02:05:11 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 09:21 +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> No. I don't get 403 errors, maybe you changed your browser user agent 
> string?

I now see the issue.  That port (8000) was blocked by the firewall, so I
was just using wget from non-firewalled host to see what was at that
site.  Now that the firewall has been updated Moin does indeed
successfully reach that site.

> 
> > Is antispam.py even worth using?
> 
> Yes. As far as I know, its the best wiki spam protection.
> 
> > Is there anything else to know about this?
> 
> Antispam maintain a blacklist of urls that spammers added to wikis or 
> blogs in the past and prevent from saving those urls to your wiki. You 
> can search for antispam on the MoinMoin wiki.


Thanks!

-Jim P.





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