I had to migrate my instiki and pimki to a new server out of the basement to a rented server at Linode. I’ve been running these wikis for more than eight years, though it is just notes and todo lists for myself, they are invaluable to me.
The new version has a spam filter and I am stuck. I guess obscurity may not be enough protection. A page had a title “ribosomal RNA notes” and this did not pass the spam filter. I looked at the config/spam_pattern.txt and there was nothing obvious.
I can figure this out from the spam_pattern.txt or the offending text ribosomal RNA notes. I’ll start from the offending text since that is shorter and I don’t need to restart the server each time.
- which word, ribosomal, RNA, or notes? –ribosomal
- back end deletion –ribosoma ribosom
- front end deletion –ibosomal bosomal osomal somal omal
- spam_pattern.txt has soma
I remove soma, restart the server, and ribosomal passes the filter. I’ll live without the protection for now. I’ll be a biologist for little while longer and I can think of many words that include soma. I don’t feel like writing a exceptions list.
Kona runs free 