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Today's Topics:

   1. Interview with a comment spammer (Dirk Haun)
   2. Re: Interview with a comment spammer (Vincent Furia)

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Message: 1
From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:28:43 +0100
Organization: Terra Software Systems
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Interview with a comment spammer
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

FYI: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/link_spamer_interview/>

Nothing too surprising here.

However, this part:


| They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to

| people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot

| them and index them.


... reminded me that I have here a half-finished patch that automatically
blocks comments to stories after a certain time, provided by a Geeklog
user. So, after say, 14 days, users can't comment on a story any more,
but the admin still can.

That patch actually worked but there was a problem with the permissions
for the admin override (a poll admin should be able to post a comment on
a poll, etc.). And, of course, it was against the old code, before
Vinny's recent changes.

Vinny, should I dig it out and/or contact the submitter? Or is this
something you'd be interested to do yourself?

bye, Dirk


-- 
http://www.haun-online.de/
http://www.handful-of-sparks.de/


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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:43:55 -0500
From: Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Interview with a comment spammer
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

If the code is already written, and is still usable after the recent
updates, I see no reason not to use it.  But if it looks like too much
trouble to forward port let me know and I can take a look at it.

-Vinny


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:28:43 +0100, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> FYI: <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/link_spamer_interview/>

> 

> Nothing too surprising here.

> 

> However, this part:

> 

> | They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to

> | people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot

> | them and index them.

> 

> ... reminded me that I have here a half-finished patch that automatically

> blocks comments to stories after a certain time, provided by a Geeklog

> user. So, after say, 14 days, users can't comment on a story any more,

> but the admin still can.

> 

> That patch actually worked but there was a problem with the permissions

> for the admin override (a poll admin should be able to post a comment on

> a poll, etc.). And, of course, it was against the old code, before

> Vinny's recent changes.

> 

> Vinny, should I dig it out and/or contact the submitter? Or is this

> something you'd be interested to do yourself?

> 

> bye, Dirk

> 

> --

> http://www.haun-online.de/

> http://www.handful-of-sparks.de/

> 

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