Talk:Current events

NeoTA: Oops. That latest change message should specify 212.77.192.61 instead of 192.114.65.98

TMC: Hard to tell these spammers apart. Another spamming of the disclaimer and I'd protect it until James finds a solution.

Bob: I added the zya 9 spammer's text to the blacklist. We are constantly being spammed, that spammer was just getting away with it because his url didn't actually contain the "V" word, or any of the othercommonly spammed banned text. I need to contrive a way of making the list of banned words accessable to other admins. Right now I can only change it by editing a file on the server.

The reason these spammers are so hard to tell apart is because their IP addresses are usually virus-zombies that they are using as proxys.

The Geek: I vote we should remove the refference to the OHR-Weekly considering it hasn't been updated since November last year - I thought I should suggest this here before I did it myself.

Mike: James, you said "I need to contrive a way of making the list of banned words accessable to other admins. Right now I can only change it by editing a file on the server." Why don't you just make it accessible by FTP? Like, make an account like "spamadmin" or something, and make the access file writable with it (nothing else, just in case)

Edit: Or, better yet: Make it a wiki page (protected of course), and make a script that fetches it from the database periodically

Bob: Grrr. Spammers can bypass many of the filters by creating a user account. I can probably implement a 24 hour delay on account activation, which ought to inconveneince them enough.