On Feb 9, 12:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have this idea that I should be able to write a security policy for > MoinMoin which uses SpamBayes to judge the appropriateness of any given > submission. It would be more accurate and faster than the current default > security policy in MoinMoin. I started to work on it and have something > that seems to be working on the SpamBayes side of things, but I can't get > the MoinMoin side of the equation to balance. > > My messages to the moin-user mailing list have so far fallen on blind eyes, > so I'm broadening my search for a MoinMoin expert who would like to help me > finish off this demonstration. If you're interested in pursuing this idea > here are a couple URLs: > > * The current code: > > http://spambayes.cvs.sourceforge.net/spambayes/spambayes/spambayes/Mo... > > * My messages to moin-user: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.moin.general/4381/match=... > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.moin.general/4488/match=... > > The motivation for the concept is in the docstring of the module as well as > in the messages, so I won't belabor the point here. As one of the current > "editors" of the Python wiki I can tell you the current scheme of using > lists of "naughty words" to identify potential wiki spam is far from > perfect. There's also the motivation found here: > > http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/ > > Scroll down and listen to the February 1st episode. >
You could also try akismet which is designed for finding spam 'comments' in blogs, a similar problem area. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml > Thanks, > > Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
