Re: spam notes
| From: | Gabor Hojtsy | Date: | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:25:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: spam notes | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.mirrors |
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Well, an IP blacklist would work in this simple case, or there could be
some approval system discussed before several times for notes, so there
would be no point trying to post spam notes.
Goba
Nuno Lopes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Finally I have some data about the spammer which is spamming the
> manual's user notes.
> He is mostly using a non-official mirror (http://php.tonnikala.org) and
> sometimes http://de3.php.net, and he is posting the data from
> different
> IPs every time. But those IPs are all blacklisted in SORBS and/or DSBL,
> and most are marked as exploitable.
>
> Some IPs:
> 80.58.32.171
> 219.93.211.74
> 80.58.32.171
> ... (they are all listed at http://news.php.net/php.notes)
>
> I have confirmed with the webmaster of the non-oficial mirror that those
> IPs are correct (he checked the apache logs).
>
> Now, what can we do? Shall we implement a little script to check if the
> submitter's IP is blacklisted? Add a CAPTCHA (pear's isn't usable
> because it needs gd)?
>
> I would love to solve this ASAP, because I'm tired of deleting spam notes..
>
>
> Nuno