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

Mon Oct 27 13:13:06 UTC 2008

Vickram,

Add me to the Sysop list and I can work with you on keeping the site
maintained and up to date.

Jeff

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:02 +0000, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> Quite right. Naturally, this increases the workload for the sysop, for
> which the only solution, imo, is to increase the number of sysops,
> with enough volunteers (3-5 is a good number) that one or the other
> takes care of it in time. 
> 
> Unfortunately, real world behaviour also means that, often, everyone
> thinks someone else will do it, and no-one does. Not being a sysop
> (moderator) on this list means I can cheerfully sound critical. 
>  
> 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 9:26:55
> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii
> site
> 
> 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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