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: Spoke with some other wiki folks at Wiki Wednesday who are experiencing the same attack & nobody seem to know, it is annoying. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 10:18, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | : Spoke with some other wiki folks at Wiki Wednesday who are experiencing the same attack & nobody seem to know, it is annoying. [[User:John Stanton|John]] 10:18, 5 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
: See my recent edit of [[Talk:WikiProject:Recent_Changes_Patrol]]. These are likely spammers testing the terrain before putting in real spam. I know it's against our policy, but may I suggest banning their IPs? It is al least moderately effective, which is better than nothing. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 04:37, 6 October 2007 (EDT) | : See my recent edit of [[Talk:WikiProject:Recent_Changes_Patrol]]. These are likely spammers testing the terrain before putting in real spam. I know it's against our policy, but may I suggest banning their IPs? It is al least moderately effective, which is better than nothing. -- [[Felix Pleşoianu]] | <small>[[User talk:Felix|talk]]</small> 04:37, 6 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
: I block them for a period that depends on activity. Long distances of junk insertion leads to long block times: | |||
: * 1 junk edit → 1 day | |||
: * 1 junk edits only today → 3 days | |||
: * 1 junk edits since 1 month → 3 months | |||
: I think it's a good idea - if they come back after unblocking, I can use the Block Log to find out how long they should be blocked. | |||
But, do we do the right, are these IPs ony used by spamming bots? | |||