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Re: SPAM in DDTSS



2009/2/23 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:00PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> That's a dumb spammer, given that the DDTSS is not in any search
>> engine I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve. I'm not sure how
>> you can prevent it either, other than requiring a login to edit which
>> only one language has asked for.
>>
>> Note that the simple method of this spammer won't affect most
>> translations because they're more than one paragraph, so the inserted
>> text would be rejected out of hand for most cases. I suppose we could
>> blackhole the IP. Any other ideas?
>
>  * I would expect SPAMS to contain links.
>  * I also expect links in the translation to be the same as in the original
>   description.

* Time between get and submit should be at least five seconds.

>
> Could these 2 assumptions be used to audit the database from time to time
> (or providing a list of potential SPAM on the front page of DDTSS)
>
> Should we add this check to the script which checks the translations
> before hey are prepared for the FTP-Masters?
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Nekral
>
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