11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
12:56 p.m.
Hi Niels,
I am sorry to hear you`re having problems with trolls and I can perfectly
understand how annoying, disruptive and possibly costly that might be.
However, I would not encourage IP filtering based solutions to handle SPAM
in general, simply due to the scarce nature of IPv4 addresses (and the
resulting high number of possible false positives). When IPv6 will be
popular, maybe that will become a viable solution.
So yes, I`d also suggest that you try an e-mail based filtering system
(since there seem to be databases with problematic e-mails) where
individuals can be pinpointed and flagged as spammers.
My 2 cents,
Eduard
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is either a feature request or a request for
discussing
solutions to the issue of known comment spammers against XWiki
installs.
There's known spammers like davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com (see
http://www.nielsmayer.com/bin/view/XWiki/DavyCrokkett ) which have to
be managed and curtailed for any XWiki install enabling comments.
During registration, it would it be nice to check sites like
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ and prevent registration emails from
going out to known comment spammers.
For example, the aforementioned spammer is listed at
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/111.243.227.227
suggesting Current country of origin: Taiwan, Province of China
Date IP Address Username Email
1-Jul-11 07:31 111.243.227.227 coseteene davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
30-Jun-11 18:29 111.243.227.227 Assusypesound davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
30-Jun-11 13:43 111.243.227.227 Impuppota davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
30-Jun-11 11:22 111.243.227.227 Biordaccoma davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
30-Jun-11 07:01 111.243.227.227 rooviskitte davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 23:59 109.230.222.175 Beethyemegree davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 22:49 111.243.227.227 Kneefshes davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 13:59 111.243.227.227 seltencarne davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 13:31 111.243.227.227 inigneedync davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 11:50 174.142.132.203 Beethyemegree davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 11:50 174.142.132.203 phorilmiplism davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 07:53 111.243.227.227 Agergeevame davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 05:56 111.243.227.227 Atomnegmess davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
29-Jun-11 05:50 111.243.227.227 Impuppota davycrokkett(a)hotmail.com
It would also be interesting for such flagged users to return a list
of associated IP's (such as above) which could be blacklisted as well.
I guess the correct solution would be to use
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Social+Login but
then the spammers would just end up getting twitter, facebook or
foursquare logins and use those instead of hotmail accounts.
-- Niels
http://www.nielsmayer.com
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