[okfn-help] Spam on Is It Open?

Mon Nov 2 23:49:37 GMT 2009

Fantastic! Looks great!

Occurs to me that we should also use this to enquire about status of
textbooks for Open Text Book!

J.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 2009/10/26 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>> Just a quick note to say there is what appears to be spam on 'Is It Open?'
>>
>>  http://isitopen.ckan.net/enquiry/list/
>
> There is indeed. I've just removed it. You can access the admin
> interface to do this kind of clearing up at:
>
> http://isitopendata.org/admin/
>
> Note also that the service now has its own domain!
>
>> Is there anything quick and easy we could do to prevent this? E.g.
>> moderate the requests? Or require people to be logged in? Or could I
>> or others have permission to remove spam?
>
> I've implemented the requirement that the to field be a genuine email
> address and I think we probably need to require the sender to be
> logged in (or to register as part of the sending process).
>
> Rufus
>

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Jonathan Gray

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