[spam-stopper] User-agent required when submitting spam?

[Michael Dale]

Why is another table required? Just send the user agent when the user submits the comment/message whatever…

There should be no need to record the user agent.

Unless you want to be able to resubmit messages, then I would just create a new column in the existing comments table.

Yes of course you can submit a fake user agent (or from the looks of it, none at all will work too) but then the anti-spam system will not work as well.

Michael.

On 03/03/2012, at 12:18 PM, james young wrote:

> Hey there -
> 
> I'm building a new Akismet plugin for Mediawiki, & I've noticed
> something about submitting spam - the user-agent is necessary.  Is it
> possible to use a placeholder value, or not submit one at all?  The
> user agent is easily spoofable, & recording that will require building
> out a new table in the database, pruning old entries, etc.
> 
> It's a headache for something of questionable value, is what I'm saying.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -James
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