On 26 December 2012 05:18, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12-12-25, at 21:51 , RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier <tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com> > > > >> @jan, > >> > >> Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) > >> the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new > spammers, > >> and I'm deeply suspicious of the other new accounts. Any ISP involved > will > >> be hearing from me. > I will do that in just a moment. I have just tested our create account, and the gatcha is working. However if I may politely point out, I suggested to stay with the "mailing" method... > >> > >> Do I assume correctly, that something (Apache server?) can be configured > >> to reject IP addresses or ranges? If so, do you do that, or do we need > to > >> go through Infra?> > > > > > > As a general rule I don't think that banning IP's is a good idea: most > > people on the Internet have dynamic IP connections. I remember some years > > ago that I was blocked from entering a comment on the extension site: the > > IP I had at that time was banned because "used by spammers"... some days > > later when my IP changed again I was able to log-in and post comments > > without problems... > I can ban an IP addr, but I agree that it not a good idea as a general rule !! > > > > Regards > > Ricardo > > > > > > > I asked Florian of the Doc.Foundation what strategies they use to combat > spam. No magic ballistic object. Just vigilantes. > I am a bit curious how they bypass our gatcha, that works and will normally stop spammers. It seems they are using a backdoor of some kind, which I need to find. > > -louis > > > > > >> > >> > >> /tj/ > >> > >> P.S.: Something is really slowing down any "save" (or delete) > operations. > >> I had one time out. I think the same was true of testwiki. Unless you're > >> running a lot of background scripts, something is wrong. > I did a lot of save/delete yesterday evening without problems....but late evening I did do some analysis. This morning save worked ok, I updated the maintenance page, commenting your note. BUT ATS is spinning a bit at the moment and have caused 2 outages (of course 1 xmas eve late). > >> > >> > > I can stop "create account" is wanted ?? jan I
