handling trackback spam on older version of Pebble (1.9)

[Derek Burt]

Hey all,

I use ContentSpamListener.regexList and a threshold of 0 to remove any
comment or trackback spam on Pebble 1.9.

I've received over 9,000 pieces of trackback spam in the last month.  It
always comes in one of three patterns:

<word>, <word> <word> and <word>
<word>, <word> <word> <word> and <word>
<word>, <word> <word> <word> and <word>

For example, here is one:

Mocslrig, dc girlscom and dc

I can write a regex expression to match each of the above three
patterns, however since the regex list is split by commas, I cannot for
the life of me figure out how to get a comma in there.  I've tried
unicode but I'm assuming that gets converted to a comma along the way.
I can't match it without the comma, or else anybody who legitimately
leaves a comment with the word "and" in it could be in trouble.

I would upgrade to solve the problem but looking at the code I think it
still works this way?

If anybody has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.  Please let me know if
I haven't provided enough information or made the issue clear.

Thanks,

Derek



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[geezenslaw]

Hello Derek, I'm hoping Olaf or Simon or anyone else would agree: I write business software for a living and anytime there are updates, upgrades or any <STABLE> revisions to any code anywhere that affects my business I don't hesitate to integrate or do what I have to do to get the applications I am using or working on to agree with the software dependencies. Even if the upgrade does not do what you want the pebble developers are going to have an easier time helping you if you are: up-to-date. HTH, David.

Derek Burt wrote ..

> Hey all,
>
> I use ContentSpamListener.regexList and a threshold of 0 to remove any
> comment or trackback spam on Pebble 1.9.
>
> I've received over 9,000 pieces of trackback spam in the last month.  It
> always comes in one of three patterns:
>
> <word>, <word> <word> and <word>
> <word>, <word> <word> <word> and <word>
> <word>, <word> <word> <word> and <word>
>
> For example, here is one:
>
> Mocslrig, dc girlscom and dc
>
> I can write a regex expression to match each of the above three
> patterns, however since the regex list is split by commas, I cannot for
> the life of me figure out how to get a comma in there.  I've tried
> unicode but I'm assuming that gets converted to a comma along the way.
> I can't match it without the comma, or else anybody who legitimately
> leaves a comment with the word "and" in it could be in trouble.
>
> I would upgrade to solve the problem but looking at the code I think it
> still works this way?
>
> If anybody has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.  Please let me know if
> I haven't provided enough information or made the issue clear.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek
>
>
>
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