Comments on: Spammers must die, Wiki Spammers doubly so. http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:07:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: gordon.dewis.ca http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1620 gordon.dewis.ca Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:53:50 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1620 <strong>Blog spam</strong> Lately, the amount of blog spam I’ve been getting has been quite low.  But, it will return in the not too distant future because that’s the way it works.  I’ve decided to implement a more active method of combating it in the form of... Blog spam

Lately, the amount of blog spam I’ve been getting has been quite low.  But, it will return in the not too distant future because that’s the way it works.  I’ve decided to implement a more active method of combating it in the form of…

]]> By: Christopher S. Aker http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1619 Christopher S. Aker Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:57:18 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1619 It ate my comment, however: http://www.linode.com/wiki/.htaccess -Chris It ate my comment, however:

http://www.linode.com/wiki/.htaccess

-Chris

]]> By: Christopher S. Aker http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1618 Christopher S. Aker Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:56:02 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1618 I had the same problem on the <a href="http://www.linode.com/wiki/" rel="nofollow">Linode Wiki</a>. Solved it by requiring, and providing, a username and password for any POST operation. Like so: <code> AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthUserFile /path/to/htdocs/wiki/.htpasswd AuthName "To edit, please use edit/wiki as the user/pass" AuthType Basic require valid-user </code> -Chris I had the same problem on the Linode Wiki. Solved it by requiring, and providing, a username and password for any POST operation. Like so:


AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthUserFile /path/to/htdocs/wiki/.htpasswd
AuthName "To edit, please use edit/wiki as the user/pass"
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

-Chris

]]> By: Justin http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1617 Justin Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:48:10 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/31/spammers-must-die-wiki-spammers-doubly-so#comment-1617 Bad Behavior has saved both my blog and wiki http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ Bad Behavior has saved both my blog and wiki http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/

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