[Python-talk] spamming the pysig wiki

[Greg Rundlett]

On 4/28/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/12/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> > Looks like MoinMoin doesn't have captcha but it does have a blacklist
> > support:
> >
> >    http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/MoinMoin
>
>   I just stumbled across this:
>
> http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamGlobalSolution
>
>   I would suggest that the PySig wiki admins deploy some kind of
> counter-measures, such as the ones in the above URL.  I further
> suggest shutting down the PySig wiki until such measures are deployed.
> The current wiki is basically wrecked due to the spam, and by not
> correcting it, we're letting the spammers benefit, which encourages
> such attacks.




There are a couple of Python captcha implementations listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Python (you're chance to improve
MoinMoin with a CAPTCHA module?) plus "free" services that include python
implementations http://captchas.net/sample/python/

Please let me know what solution you implement, since we'll have to do this
at OASIS with our MoinMoin wikis (unless I convert to mediawiki first ;-).
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