Tag: spam

MediaWiki ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha extension

Since I moved my LDAP wiki over from DokuWiki to MediaWiki, I've been burried by a daily torrent of spam. Just like with my tropical timber investments wiki, the ReCaptcha extension (with pretty intrusive settings) doesn't seem to do much to stop this shitstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 weeks ago, on January 17, 2012, at 15:01 | No comments

Disabling Zimbra’s spam learning

Zimbra learns ham and spam by sending it to certain mailboxes. For our setup, this doesn't work (easily), because our server is configured to always send mail to another SMTP server and not do any local delivery. I did that, because our zimbra server is not actually on the domain it thinks. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on December 21, 2009, at 15:12 | 1 comment

reCAPTCHA fun

If you've never heard of reCAPTCHA before, reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. I'm using reCAPTCHA on this and other blog to protect myself from automated spam comments. I'm also using it on some of my MediaWiki sites to protect myself from wiki spam. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on September 20, 2009, at 12:09 | No comments