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: The other thought is that spammers are putting manual effort into creating landing pages for email campaigns and the like. We could conceivably #REDIRECT the spam pages to a common target page for the time being. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 18:01, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
:: Blacklists or Bayesian filters are not very effective ways to filter spam, and they create false positives. A good spam filtering is based on what the spammers are actually selling: their contact information (e-mail address, web address etc.). I would think there is only one or just a few spammers that bother to manually create pages here in Rosetta Code, so it should be possible to add their contact information to spam filter manually. --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 09:59, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
::: You could also try simply turning off the creation of new accounts for a while (e.g., a couple of weeks) to encourage the spammers to go elsewhere. The number of new genuine users turned off by this is probably going to be quite small, and the problem does at least seem to be confined to user pages. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 13:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
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