Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Looks like our wiki is the target of a pr0n spam bot. It obviously > uses zombies, and there's no reasonable way to block it other than with > making logging in mandatory. Blocking IP addresses is pointless and > will lead nowhere. I don't even consider mandatory login a bad thing -- > why would we want anonymous people to edit FlightGear content? These > pages are very visible to the public, and content found there is linked > to the project. (BTW: I also find it undesirable that people use nicks > in the Wiki. I prefer to see who edited what, and being able to contact > him/her via email. How would I contact "FlightZilla"?) >
I agree with Melchior here. In today's internet environment, things have to be password protected or they will quickly be abused. I don't know what is involved in creating accounts for people on the wiki, but that is definitely something that should be done. I don't mind "nicks" so much, but somehow we need to be able to trace back to a real person or real email address. We should make it relatively easy for people to get write access to the wiki though. I assume Simon is reading this email, but I'll also ask him about this directly, since I've been working with him to setup a mirror site for the wiki so all our documentation eggs are not in one basket. Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
