I guess I'm missing something here. Why can't you just not allow posts
or wiki edits unless the user is logged in?

James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> Just in case someone doesn't know this: piclist.com is a wiki / blog thing.
> You can post comments, code, ideas, whatever directly to the web pages. If
> you register, you can make new pages, edit old pages, and so on. Lots of
> people do.
>
> I'm getting between 50 and 100 attempts PER DAY to post wiki-spam to pages
> at the site. That is, to post links and messages about all sorts of drugs,
> sex sites, and other crap that is in no way related to the content of the
> site. I just did a check and fully 90% of that is from IP addresses in China
> or Korea.
>
> That, coupled with the really annoying questions and requests that are
> posted in broken English for things that are already on the site if they
> would just read the pages (read: do my homework) leads me to think about
> just totally blocking access to the site from those countries.
>
> Sad huh? I really don't want to do that, as I'm sure there are some people
> who are valid users. But managing the flow of spam is just killing me. If I
> don't do that, I will either have to just remove all the wiki / blog
> functions entirely, or commercialize the site to make enough money to pay my
> time.
>
> I can set it up so that registered users from those countries can still
> access the site, but I don't see a way to allow the site to display content
> and block the forms for the wiki / blog stuff. Maybe if I can find a REALLY
> fast way to catalog IP addresses based on country in the script that
> displays the content? Other than that, I'm going to load a list of chi/kor
> IP ranges into IIS and just block all access.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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