[ckan-discuss] CKAN spam

Tue Aug 2 12:33:45 BST 2011

Sure, I'd love to help.

What about users? Is there any mechanism for keeping spammers away?

Cheers,
Pablo

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Pablo (and Bill),
>
> Would you be interested in becoming sysadmins on theDataHhub (formerly
> known as ckan.net!)? Being a sysadmin means, among other things, that
> you can mark revisions and packages for deletion and then "purge" them
> from the trash (at ckan-admin/trash).
>
> Rufus
>
> On 2 August 2011 10:50, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've had the itch to flag packages and authors as spam/spammers myself.
> > Any plans to incorporate such features?
> > Cheers,
> > Pablo
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> Thanks very much. Cc'ing CKAN-discuss.
> >>
> >> @Team, In history I can only compare versions, I don't appear to
> >> actually be able to roll back with my level of access, otherwise I
> >> would do this myself.
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Bill Roberts <bill at swirrl.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi Lucy
> >> > Not sure who is responsible for maintaining CKAN, so perhaps you could
> >> > forward this to the right person for me.
> >> > I noticed a couple of recent spam packages have been added to
> ckan.net
> >> > and
> >> > appear at the top of the front page (as the newest entries). I don't
> >> > seem to
> >> > have the rights to delete them myself but perhaps someone could do
> some
> >> > tidying up.
> >> > Best regards
> >> > Bill
> >>
> >>
> >>
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