[virt-tools-list] Wiki has been spammed

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 20:27:58 UTC 2011


On 11/10/2011 03:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 02:49:04PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 11/10/2011 12:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:07:02AM -0500, Jonathan Bayer wrote:
>>>> Not sure who to send this to:
>>>>
>>>> On the wiki:  http://virt-manager.org/page/Main_Page
>>>>
>>>> On the third line of the first paragraph, the link to the User
>>>> Registration has been changed, it now says:
>>>>
>>>> "irritable bowel syndrome", and links to:[..]
>>>
>>> Cole should be able to fix this I think.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah I reverted that spam. Unfortunately there is a lot more:
>>
>> http://virt-manager.org/page/Special:Recentchanges
>>
>> And pretty sure the hosting policy forbids sending out mail so its tough
>> to get notified of this stuff (and its a pain to revert anyways).
> 
> I have just enabled a Captcha on all the wikis hosted on et.redhat.com
> that allow users to self-create accounts. It will require a math question
> answer upon account creation, and upon any edit inserting a URL.
> 
> I will also be enabling mandatory email address confirmation for all
> users soon.
> 
> These should cut down on spam problems.
> 

(whoops, responded to the libvirt-list email before reading this).

Thanks a bunch!

- Cole




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