[pmwiki-users] Honeypots for Spam (was Spam status and suggestion for PmWiki.org)

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Oct 16 11:12:35 CDT 2006


On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:29:14PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:07:28PM -0700, Pico wrote:
> > If we were to start using honeypots to deal with automated attacks, then
> 
> I wonder how fast those bots post to the wiki. If they change e.g. X
> pages in Y seconds we could probably block them this way too?

Based on what I've observed, bots posting to the wiki aren't
significantly faster than a person -- i.e., nearly all bots have
some sort of delay in the posting cycle (probably to avoid this 
sort of detection).

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