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

[Michael Dale]

Are you at least sending the commenter IP address? That plus the comment should be enough I would have thought.


On 03/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, james young wrote:

> 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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