On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Kevin Buley <kevin@buley.org> wrote:

I can't remember if this was discussed a few years ago, or if I dreamt the whole thing... How about regex bans? I think it would go a long way towards helping to keep the bots at bay.

Sounds nifty - submit a patch and I'll definitely consider it :) The concern there would be in cpu usage - regular expressions are expensive, but we seem to have more CPU floating around these days than we did a decade ago... -Aaron