Re[2]: [PHP-DOC] spam protection for user notes

From: Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:10:02 +0000
Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-DOC] spam protection for user notes
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||*()*|| Hi, Nuno. NL> I don't like those annoying images either. But we must do something.. I'm NL> tired of receiving a lot of spam notes every day. Maybe throttling? You know - if one IP: 1. sends a lot of comments in one day and 2. IP is not in a white list and 3. these comments are identical and 4. there is a short period between comment posts these comments are grouped together with some flag and become hidden until somebody from php-notes ML either approves or deletes them. NL> Using the same system as the bugs site seems to be the best choice.. because NL> my attempts to stop spam (by checking IPs blacklists and by using words NL> blacklist) didn't work for long. NL> BTW, I don't agree with an 'accept' system. With that, almost zero notes NL> will be approved each day, because no one will like to take the NL> responsability to approve a note. Delete/reject is much simpler and provides NL> a faster way to have good notes on-line. Yep. t --

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