Dear Scott,
Sorry about the delay, I was out of town a few days which was part of the
reason I wanted to do something. Based on earlier comments I changed the
code I added to Format.pm to the following:
# Check to see if we should check for too many anchors
if ($S->{UI}->{VARS}->{remove_many_anchors}) {
# We need to check to see if too many anchors are defined.
my $de_anchored_comment = $comment_text;
my $num_anchors = $de_anchored_comment =~
s/[hH][rR][eE][fF]\s*=>//g;
if ($num_anchors >
$S->{UI}->{VARS}->{max_anchors_per_comment}){
$de_anchored_comment =~ s/<.*?>//g;
$comment_text = $de_anchored_comment;
}
}
I have not had any problems with comment spam since I changed the code. Now
I wait for the next phase in the spam race.
Sincerely,
Kel
On 5/10/06, William Scott Lockwood III <wsl3 at lrsehosting.com> wrote:
>
> This may not work for you, but I run several low traffic sites, and found
> that firewalling off 60.0.0.0/8 for about three days caused most of these
> Chineese spammers to give up. The only thing I worry about really, is do
> they lurk on this list? :-)
>
> Scott
>
> On 5/8/06, Kelly Black <kelly.black at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Chris,
>
> The user is creating new accounts from different places. I can't use the
> spam domain ban without turning away too many people.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kel
>
>
> On 5/8/06, Chris Schults <cschults at grist.org> wrote:
> >
> > Kelly, have you tried banning the user, or is the person creating new
> > accounts?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* scoop-help-bounces at lists.kuro5hin.org [mailto:
> > scoop-help-bounces at lists.kuro5hin.org] *On Behalf Of *Kelly Black
> > *Sent:* Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:02 PM
> > *To:* scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org
> > *Subject:* [Scoop-help] Comment Spammers
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been having a problem with a serial comment spammer lately. I've
> > set the throttle low, removed anonymous posting rights, been deleting
> > messages, even created a script to just go through and automatically change
> > his posts. Still the crazy bugger keeps posting long lists of link spam to
> > my site*.
> >
> > Here is my answer to this. Set up the way comments are printed so that
> > if too many links are included in one comment they get filtered out. I am
> > posting to ask if what I am proposing has any problems and is sane. This
> > idea requires two new site controls:
> >
> > remove_many_anchors - A boolean variable. If set then any comment with
> > more links than specified in the next control gets filtered when it comes
> > time to print out the comment.
> >
> > max_anchors_per_comment - The maximum number of links that can appear in
> > a comment.
> >
> > Here are the sql comands to create these two new controls:
> >
> > INSERT INTO `vars` (name,value,description,type,category) VALUES
> > ('remove_many_anchors','0','Set true to remove excessive anchor tags in a
> > comment.','bool','Comments');
> >
> > INSERT INTO `vars` (name,value,description,type,category) VALUES
> > ('max_anchors_per_comment','4','The maximum number of anchor tags that can
> > occur in a comment. If more than this occurs then they are removed if the
> > remove_many_anchors variable is set.','num','Comments');
> >
> > The idea is that whole comments are stored in the database and only
> > filtered when it comes time to print them. That way if you want to make a
> > change after something is posted the original post is preserved. So this is
> > independent of the data in the database.
> >
> >
> > Finally, the following code must be added to Format.pm:
> >
> >
> > 206,220d205
> > <
> > <
> > < # Check to see if we should check for too many anchors
> > < if ($S->{UI}->{VARS}->{remove_many_anchors}) {
> > < # We need to check to see if too many anchors are defined.
> > < my $de_anchored_comment = $comment_text;
> > < my $num_anchors = $de_anchored_comment =~
> > < s/<\s*[Aa]\s+[hH][rR][eE][fF]\s*=\s*".*?"\s*>//g;
> >
> > < if ($num_anchors >
> > $S->{UI}->{VARS}->{max_anchors_per_comment}){
> > < $de_anchored_comment =~ s/<\s*\/\s*[aA]\s*>//g;
> > < $comment_text = $de_anchored_comment;
> > < }
> > < }
> > <
> > <
> >
> > I've tested this on a fake site I run for testing purposes. It seems to
> > work okay in a few limited tests. My question, am I missing something? Is
> > this worthwhile?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Kel
> >
> > * I tracked his ip address down to mainland China and even resorted to
> > changing his posts to pro-Taiwan rants yet still he keeps posting these
> > inane sets of links. I wish there were a way to submit an email address to
> > one place to insure that it gets put on *everybody's* email spam list. But I
> > digress...
> >
> >
>
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> Scott
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