On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:39:26 -0500 "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???> wrote:
> php.net also had to take down their user comments section for a while not
> long ago because of spammers targeting the notes system.
> If something like this does get implemented for exim.org then we need to
> make sure to take that kind of inevitable abuse into account when putting it
> together. I don't think merely rating them will be enough.
absolutely rating is not enough. they're not spamming so that you read it,
they're spamming to tweak their google scores.
it doesn't necessarily need logins, but it at least needs some sort of
robot protection. link spammers aren't manually putting in links, they
are writing perl scripts that run around adding links to vulnerable
bb systems and blogs.
richard
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