Translations:Manual:Combating spam/130/en

Note that blocking the address of the spambot posting to your site is not the same as blocking the URL's of specific external links being spammed in the edited text. Do both. Both approaches used in combination, as a means to supplement (but not replace) other anti-spam tools such as title or username blacklists and tests which attempt to determine whether an edit is made by a human or a robot (captcha, bad behaviour or akismet) can be a very effective means to separate spambots from real, live human visitors.