[pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 06:38:33PM +1100, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:20:09PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > Even if it is 
> > > the case (which is not: these are open proxies), there are 254 legitimate 
> > > innocent IPs that are blocked.
> > 
> > I'm fine with guilt-by-associate for now.  I've never run into a
> > case where a legitimate poster complained about being inadvertently
> > blocked by one of these address ranges.
> 
> That's because many a legitimate poster gives up as soon as they're blocked.
> I've been blocked at pmwiki.org from my work address, and simply gave
> up, waiting until I got home to do the edit.

Good point.  And some newbies may simply assume that they're restricted
from posting for some reason (e.g., they don't know the correct
incantation for pmwiki.org).

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