Now that PM has added
<a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS">PITS</a>
/00563 (Don't show ?action= links to web spiders/robots) to 2.1.beta8,
this problem with the commentsmailed recipe may go away. <br>
<br>
I'm holding at version 2.012 on my wikis for now, so won't know for a while - is there anybody who knows or can tell?<br>
<br>
If the PITS 00563 fix is going to resolve the problem with
commentsmailed, is there by any chance a way that I can institute this
restriction on robots via somethink like added lines inside of my
config.php, in the short term?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Tegan<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tegan Dowling</b> <<a href="mailto:tmdowling@gmail.com">tmdowling@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, all: <br>
<br>
We've been using the Comments recipe for ages - the three "public"
actions that we usually have links to in our headers are "email this
page" (MyWikiFriends recipe), "printable view of page" (?action=print),
and "comment on this page" (Comments recipe). The problem with
having the Comments feature, though, is that it's very, very seldom
used. It's used so seldom that one typically never develops the
habit (or else falls out of the habit) of checking for comments, which
means that a visitor goes to the trouble of posting a comment and then
never gets a response - not a good thing.<br>
<br>
So recently, when I noticed David Spitzley's <span id="st" name="st" class="st0">commentsmailed</span>.php variant
of the comments recipe, I hoped that would resolve this issue.
Unfortunately, I've now stopped looking at the comments lines in the
mailposts, just as I stopped checking <br>
AllRecentComments, because there are vastly more "false positives" than actual, legitimate reports of comments.<br>
<br>
First: It appears that the ".Comment" version of a page is
created the first time someone uses ?action=comment, even if he/she
does not create and save a comment on the page, and also that a comment
transaction is added to the mailpost whenever anyone uses
?action=comment.<br>
<br>
Second: Based on the mailposts, which show a comment transaction
on one page after another, I'm suspecting that a robot may be crawling
the sites and somehow performing the ?action=comment. When I look
in wiki.d/, I see a ".Comments" version of every page, though none have
any content, and "AllRecentComments" isn't registering any
activity. Does this make sense? I can't believe any person
is methodically working his/her way through every page on these sites
clicking "Comment" and then exiting without adding anything.<br>
<br>
I'd prefer that the ".Comment" page not be created unless an actual comment is added, and I'd <span style="font-weight: bold;">very</span> much prefer not to see the "false positives" in the mailposts. Any thoughts on how this could be prevented?
<br>
<br>
(Ultimately, I would wish to see comments integrated into (All)RecentChanges as well as into the mailposts)<br>
<br>
Thanks for giving it your consideration,<br><span class="sg">
<br>
Tegan<br>
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