Sorry Ian, I am just a bit sensitive on spam at the moment, I had not seen
your name on the list, so I was confused since I write regularly (during
the last couple of months on dev and l10n lists).
Just to explain, I was subscribed as jancasacon...@gmail.com, but got a new
address j...@apache.org, and I did not want to be subscribed twice (I did
not want to see all replies double) so I unsubscribed
jancasacon...@gmail.com.
I am aware of the bit about unsubscribed e-mails, since there has been
plenty on the l10n list. By the way I dont know what happened on l10n og
qa, because I have done exactly the same on those as on dev.
But of course if it causing problems that I changed my e-mail address, then
I need to find another solution.
have a nice evening.
Jan.
On 20 November 2012 18:17, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2012 17:06, jan iversen <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have just received a bit strange e-mail from a
> > Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com
> >
> > with the content:
> > May I suggest you subscribe to the dev list?
> > To subscribe to the list, send a message to:
> > <dev-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org>
> >
>
> It's because I am a moderator to the list and I keep getting e-mails for
> moderation from you. Probably because you are sending them via a different
> e-mail address. It would be easier if you subscribed the e-mail addresses
> you use regularly for the list to reduce the moderation traffic.
>
> When we get e-mails from non-subscribed addresses we are not sure if the
> sender is going to see replies.
>
> --
> > Ian
> >
> > Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ)
> >
> > www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940
> >
> > The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth,
> > Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and
> > Wales.
> > ------------
> >
> > Is that a person in here (in which case I will respond to him), or can it
> > be an effect of the spam attacks ?, I have also being receiving a lot of
> > spam the last 48 hours, which are not caught by gmail ??
> >
> > Rob:
> > What qualification would a Wiki maintainer need ? I used to maintain our
> > business sites, which were PHP and AJAX based, with MySql behind, it that
> > would fit, it is a job which I would volunteer for.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for info about my mysterious mail.
> > Jan I
> >
> >
> > On 20 November 2012 16:57, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, tj <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > >>> Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki
> accounts
> > > on a
> > > >>> ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> How many "real" wiki accounts do we get on a typical (no-spam) day?
> > > >> Are we sure that the admins can handle that volume of manual account
> > > >> requests?
> > > >
> > > > Managing real requests will certainly be less work than fighting
> > > spammers.
> > > >
> > > > +1 to proceeding now with registration by request.
> > > >
> > > > I'm actually for it permanently - although we should migrate to a
> > > wiki@oo.a.o or admin@oo.a.o ML for these types of requests
> > > >
> > >
> > > I wouldn't do it permanently. We're just avoiding the real issue --
> > > we're not really maintaining our MWiki. If we don't get some site
> > > maintainer in there, to deal with upgrades, etc., the wiki will fall
> > > over for some other reason at a future point. When we deal with that
> > > then we'll join the many other MWiki sites that don't require
> > > extraordinary steps to keep spammers at bay.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should do a call for MWiki and phpBB admin types at some
> > > point? Our infrastructure needs are complex enough that this is
> > > project sub-discipline in itself.
> > >
> > > -Rob
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will
> > > research
> > > >>> what change is required to block other sign-up methods.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Currently, Mwiki is under massive attack by spammers. Thanks to the
> > > valiant
> > > >>> efforts of volunteers Adailton, Helen russian, Pitonyak, and Yak,
> we
> > > are
> > > >>> staying even: the lifetime of spam may be a few hours, but is
> usually
> > > only a
> > > >>> few minutes.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> However, the spammers are creating new spam accounts (the pattern
> in
> > > the
> > > >>> names is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and
> > > 24/7. We
> > > >>> cannot survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> To be continued.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> /tj/
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Ian
>
> Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ)
>
> www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940
>
> The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth,
> Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and
> Wales.
>
