[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Spammer trick - image uploads abused
Tim 'avatar' Bartel
wikipedia at computerkultur.org
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.
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