Re: spam notes

An IP blacklist doesn't work, because he submits notes from different IPs everytime. So far, he didn't repeat any IP. For now, the admin of that non-official mirror has deleted the add-notes.php script, so we haven't received any more spam. When I finish my exams I'll try to do a function to check if a IP is blacklisted in SORBS or DSBL. It doesn't seem to be difficult. Nuno

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