On 28/07/05, John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
Thanks to Darren at php4hosting.com who kindly hosts the web site for us a recent backup has cured the mess that the spammers left the wiki in. All should be well for now at least until one of the spamming scum does it again. Oh the joys of having an open access wiki!
Hants, Surrey and Wolves LUGs used to suffer really badly with this on their wikis. The Hants LUG people developed some patches to the wiki they use (usemod) to help to reduce the amount of spam that gets through. These patches were rolled out to Wolves and Surrey also. Some still does of course - they're inventive little gits these spammers, but the vast majority has been curbed.
You might want to have a look at the AntiSpam [1] page on the HantsLUG wiki to see what was done, and how this might help you guys.
Cheers, Al.