On Sunday 25 July 2010 15:25:44 Sean Gibbins wrote: > On 25/07/10 11:52, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since the Wiki re-fresh it has been plagued with SPAM, today I've checked > > and nearly a dozen pages have been spammed this weekend. All I seem to do > > with the site is remove spam from it. > > > > Our wiki is an open site that allows any one to edit them in the hope > > that people contribute to the site. The problem is that very few people > > contribute to the site but a lot of sad spammers do. > > > > There are three options: > > > > 1) Leave as is, and hope I and a few others still have the will to keep > > the viagra adds to a minimum. > > > > 2) Force everyone who wishes to contribute to the wiki to register via a > > human. This will make it harder to contribute but should keep the spam to > > zero. > > > > 3) Turn the web site back into a static web site, which will make it very > > much harder to others to contribute, but again will keep the spam to > > zero. > > > > > > I think we all like the idea that anyone can contribute to the site and > > add anything (within reason) to the site. However we also need to accept > > that very few people have added anything in the past months and all I and > > a few others do is remove spam. > > > > DISCUSS! > > Option 4: is there anything that can be done to reduce the amount of > spam using/tweaking moinmoin's anti-spam features? > > Failing that, option 2 sounds like a goer. If it's worth posting, it's > worth registering. > > Sean
I'm with Sean either lock down what we have or failing that make it members\register only Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
