From: http://claimid.com/richard-lyons Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:56:24 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Added a comment X-Git-Tag: 3.20130518~2^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/56dd31b96307e3290caf374c9fc52c724e35a419 Added a comment --- diff --git a/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__/comment_2_d098124f005976ee815d25c883bc9106._comment b/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__/comment_2_d098124f005976ee815d25c883bc9106._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..53e743361 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_can_I_prevent_spam__63__/comment_2_d098124f005976ee815d25c883bc9106._comment @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://claimid.com/richard-lyons" + nickname="richard-lyons" + subject="comment 2" + date="2013-05-17T20:56:23Z" + content=""" +I did indeed have opendiscussion active. I shall wait to see what happens after disabling it. + +The bots seem to make 5 consecutive edits at short intervals (around 2 minutes) using an IP +address as a username. I do not know if the IP is the one from which they work. There are +usually two or three sets of five edits using different IP addresses as username in each hour. + +I did try blocking specific IPs but they constantly change. + +It would be good if blocking could match a regexp, but as far as I can see this is not an option, +"""]]