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

[james young]

I wasn't talking about the comment check, but about submitting spam.

My sense is that it's worth avoiding Mediawiki databases, complexity-wise.

-James


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Michael Dale <mdale at dalegroup.net> wrote:
> 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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