From e4e7d7381d50608aacfbefba054a2ff4f516625a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anarcat Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:58:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] avoiding ban? --- doc/todo/anti-spam_protection.mdwn | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/anti-spam_protection.mdwn b/doc/todo/anti-spam_protection.mdwn index c653ab30a..cf07fe7eb 100644 --- a/doc/todo/anti-spam_protection.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/anti-spam_protection.mdwn @@ -55,3 +55,36 @@ That removed 2265 comments. I reviewed the remaining 643 by hand and deleted the Now, I don't want to point fingers, but there sure seems to be some problems with china there and i'm tempted to just block those entire networks. :/ Anyways... Someone mentioned Spamassassin in the original request, and I just [read](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/769917/130e156925fc690e/) that some people *are* using spamassassin for website spam control. Has anyone gave that a try? --[[anarcat]] + +---- + +Another note that might be of interest here... One of the things that script was doing was to generate a list of IPs to be inserted into `ikiwiki.setup`. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work: + + $ ~anarcat/bin/ikiwiki-comment-moderate + found 165 pending comments + IP distribution: + 1 ip="110.86.179.146" + [...] + 10 ip="175.44.35.10" + 11 ip="175.44.35.236" + banlist would look like: + - ip(110.86.179.146) + # 112.111.162.159 already present + # 112.111.163.216 already present + [...] + # 36.250.185.52 already present + # 36.250.185.55 already present + # 36.250.186.113 already present + - ip(59.60.123.211) + to remove comments from a specific IP, use this, for example: + find . -name '*._comment_pending' | xargs grep -l 'ip="$ip"'| xargs rm + to flush all pending comments, use: + find . -name '*._comment_pending' -delete + +In other words, many of the comments in moderation are actually +supposed to be blocked, as their IPs are in the `banned_users` +list. Now I know my way around a UNIX system well enough to deal with +this another way - I'm thinking of fail2ban or a simple Apache rewrite +table (and it might easier and faster too) - but I wonder why those +IPs can still post comments when they are listed in +`banned_users`... -- [[anarcat]] -- 2.39.2