On 11/17/2012 08:28, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi,
TJ Frazier schrieb:
Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the
deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And
still they come.
In the short run, I can probably handle it, though help from any
committer sysops would be useful.
In the long run, some site-maintainer work is needed. The additional
powers available in later Mwiki versions might be enough to control this
sort of thing. Clayton has advised that upgrading is a non-trivial
problem, due to a possible encoding foul-up. Whatever we do, we need to
do it sometime soon.
Is it possible for you, to disable any new registrations? Then you
should do it. We can then discuss long run solutions.
Kind regards
Regina
Hi, Regina,
Thanks for the idea, but most of the spammers are already registered
(not brand-new). A site maintainer (not me) could disable new
registrations easily, but that would not be much help.
We need to know how these spammers are registering (their email
addresses) and how they are accessing the wiki (their IP addresses). The
information is in the MySQL database, but it is only accessible from
root-level MySQL commands; Wp is paranoid about user secrecy.
For instance, are they using those "open reply" email addresses, where
the email waits to be picked up by anybody? Clayton had a code snippet
to block their use, but it may not have survived.
I have promoted one dedicated and careful user to sysop; between us, we
are keeping up with the flood. But they are still coming.
/tj/
