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Note: The black magic spammer we had on Physics/AU did not post URLs (instead pulling from a pool of phone numbers and sometimes email addys). But I guess that's a rare event.

Manishearth
– Manishearth

2013-06-24 10:46:15 +00:00
Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 10:46
@Manishearth Restricting the blacklist to plain text might be okay, but regular expressions are a bit too dangerous IMHO.

Mad Scientist
– Mad Scientist

2013-06-24 10:57:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 10:57
of course. Actually, restricting it to URLs (and possibly email ids) is OK too. Spammers rarely go without posting one of those. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just noting that there are edge cases. :)

Manishearth
– Manishearth

2013-06-24 11:02:54 +00:00
Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 11:02
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Whatever you do, make sure that I can't blacklist the whole Opera-mini proxy farm. ::mad cackling and much dry washing of hands::

dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten
– dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten

2013-06-24 15:36:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 15:36

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