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| author | http://claimid.com/richard-lyons <richard-lyons@web> | 2013-05-17 06:52:55 -0400 |
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| committer | admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-05-17 06:52:55 -0400 |
| commit | bf9fdcc80fd511c97643139ae298790e770854ef (patch) | |
| tree | d16e7faaf94ece1c31f5d69199defb3396924309 | |
| parent | 325160e44f9a3b273958e5c0051cd34c832c8221 (diff) | |
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new topic re 2rand[0,1,1] spam
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diff --git a/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44e31927e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +I am getting continuous spam like this: + + discussion 85.25.146.11 web 11:02:19 05/17/13 2rand[0,1,1] + discussion 85.25.146.11 web 11:02:13 05/17/13 2rand[0,1,1] + +The bot uses an IP address as the username and puts '2rand[0,1,1]' as comment text. + +I do not have a page 'discussion' in use, so I have redirected this page with an apache2 +Alias to a static page, just in case anyone stumbles on it. This means it cannot really +be edited via the web. However the bots that post +this spam are evidently not opening the page to edit it, but merely sending a cgi request +as if they had edited the page. The result is that no damage is done on the site and no +benefit is achieved for the spammer since google cannot see the result. However, the +logs are stuffed with spurious entries and a page is constantly recompiled, which wastes +resources. + +Is there some way to reject edits that do not arise from an established session? |