Looking for a MoinMoin guru - MoinMoin+SpamBayes == no wiki spam?

[Fuzzyman]

On Feb 9, 12:31 am, s... at pobox.com wrote:
> I have this idea that I should be able to write a security policy for
> MoinMoin which uses SpamBayes to judge the appropriateness of any given
> submission.  It would be more accurate and faster than the current default
> security policy in MoinMoin.  I started to work on it and have something
> that seems to be working on the SpamBayes side of things, but I can't get
> the MoinMoin side of the equation to balance.
>
> My messages to the moin-user mailing list have so far fallen on blind eyes,
> so I'm broadening my search for a MoinMoin expert who would like to help me
> finish off this demonstration.  If you're interested in pursuing this idea
> here are a couple URLs:
>
> * The current code:
>
>  http://spambayes.cvs.sourceforge.net/spambayes/spambayes/spambayes/Mo...
>
> * My messages to moin-user:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.moin.general/4381/match=...
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.moin.general/4488/match=...
>
> The motivation for the concept is in the docstring of the module as well as
> in the messages, so I won't belabor the point here.  As one of the current
> "editors" of the Python wiki I can tell you the current scheme of using
> lists of "naughty words" to identify potential wiki spam is far from
> perfect.  There's also the motivation found here:
>
>    http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/
>
> Scroll down and listen to the February 1st episode.
>

You could also try akismet which is designed for finding spam
'comments' in blogs, a similar problem area.

Fuzzyman
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> Thanks,
>
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