[wp-docs] new spam attack style

[Lorelle VanFossen]

Just heard from Barry Abrahamson of Automattic/WordPress about the issue of
protecting the Codex from the spammers who revert their own spammy
intrusions into the Codex:

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Did a few things:

1) Added robots.txt as Jeremy suggested.
2) Enabled the revision delete permission for syspos -- you can read more
here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete

This should allow you to easily hide the contents of a spam revision from
the history, etc.

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Thanks, Barry!!!!!

This should help. Please report in if you are having any trouble with these
changes.

Thanks,

Lorelle


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 19:00 +0100, mrmist wrote:
> > Looks like the link spammers have a new tactic - publish a load of links
> > and then revert the changes.
> >
> > How nice, they are tidying up after themselves now. Saves me a job I
> > guess.
>
> Thus the links still remain in the revision history, immutable.
>
> I suggest adding a line to "Disallow: /index.php" in
> http://codex.wordpress.org/robots.txt.
>
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