[Pmwiki-users] Spamming technique

[Steven Leite]

I really like this idea.

-S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crisses" <crisses at ofobscurity.com>
To: "PmWiki Users" <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] Spamming technique


> > So a tip for the admins is to do a search for '%white%' on your
> > sites...
>
> I've "delete"'d a number of WikiSandbox pages lately because of
this -- 
> delete puts the page revisions in places webcrawlers won't get to
them,
> thus the people won't get the hits they want.  And has the bonus of
> reverting the WikiSandbox page to that which comes in wikilib.d
>
> %white%, otoh, doesn't work for me, because I don't use a white
> background template.  I'm not sure any of the wiki colors match my
> site: I don't think I'm even using websafe colors :P  And I get
> notifications when people hit my WikiSandbox, so now I can check it
> like I check any other updated page.  I wish I had so much real
content
> that it would be a nuisance for me to do so...
>
> As a security feature for sites that get too many spider-hunter links,
> it's possible to disable external and non-intermap links until
approved
> by the admin on the site...if those are the only links we keep an
> "approved" list of or something like that, it might work ok....and of
> course that would be optional.
>
> Hey, has anyone tried to run a grep on their site in the wiki.d folder
> to see all http:// requests in their pages?  maybe I'll do that (just
> to eyeball what comes up).  an initial "approved" file would be pretty
> easy to make from there.
>
> Crisses
>
>
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