[wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii site

Mon Oct 27 03:56:55 UTC 2008

Vickram,

I have similar issues with the site I maintain at
www.opendigitalvillage.net 

With a lot of effort recently expended to go back and change the setting
on the edit (to roll the page back to its prespammed condition) doc
every time a "bot"spammed the site.

Finally I went to wikimedia's site and found out how to change the
settings so that only people who register can edit.

That is another layer of protection but in this situation it is probably
not enough because it is real people who are doing the spamming.

Thus youll have to set up the system so that only people with
authorization to blog can blog.

Another option which is not so severe is to remove access only for those
IP addresses that are spamming.

And to also have notifications to the sysop when people are modifying
the site.

Jeff

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 01:51 +0000, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> I've not looked back a great deal, but in the past couple of months 2
> gamers, henry1544 and david2003, seem to be using the page to
> advertise some game or the other, in the guise of a discussion about
> games. 
> 
> On other lists, I have noticed that making a wiki available is an
> invitation to spammers. What is the best practice for keeping these
> squalid squatters away?
>  
> Vickram
> http://communicall.wordpress.com
> http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: jeff buderer <jeff at onevillagefoundation.org>
> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
> Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2008 4:26:30
> Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii
> site
> 
> Apologies for not changing the subject before I sent the previous
> email
> out.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:54 -0700, jeff buderer wrote:
> 
> > What is Warhammer and why is it on the WSFII site?
> > 
> > http://www.wsfii.org/2008/09/
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> 
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