[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused

Mon Aug 22 06:16:29 UTC 2005

Hi Wikipedians,

Angela wrote:
> I agree with Mark on this. Turning off external linking, if such a
> thing could be made possible, would be much more helpful than
> disabling images.

Tech-view:

I *strongly* advise against this.
This is not, how the WWW works.

You have to rely on referers (very bad) or build really obstruct
cookie-setups.

Bye, avatar.