Hamish wrote: > I notice over the last day or two a high number of seemingly randomly > generated new user accounts on our wiki site. We can ban these fake > users as they come and hope we don't hit anyone real, but at 10/day > it becomes an ugly chore, time sink, and demotivator. Up til now we've > been getting a few suspect accounts at the rate of around 1/week but no > automated spam. > > We are up to 908 users registered, most appear to be spambot accounts, > but only 41 have been manually blocked. > > There are apparently plans afoot to upgrade the wiki software on the > server, hopefully the new version will contain stronger capcha > mechanisms to weed out the jerks and we can spend more time on useful > work. Hopefully it can easily rank and remove bogus accounts instead of > just blocking them. > > to combat wiki spam we need to keep an eye on the recent changes page, > http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Special:Recentchanges
over the weekend there were 56 new spambot accounts opened in the wiki. I am now working through the wiki's web interface to ban these one by one, but it is a big drain of time which I would much prefer to spend on more productive tasks. the sooner we get this situation fixed the better. Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
