Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-19 Thread Martin Holz
SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what about simply reusing the userlist from the cocoon-dev, > cocoon-user, cocoon-doc mailing lists and allow write access only to > these > > registered users ? > > That should make life easy... > I think, authors, who are NOT members of on

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread Scherler
Niclas Hedhman wrote: I favour a simple self-registration, with email address as user name (so that the community can bombard the intruder with hate mail - just kidding). Having a valid wiki name is not enough! I think we have to enter a password as well! ...but this would be against wiki des

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread Steven Noels
SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous wrote: what about simply reusing the userlist from the cocoon-dev, cocoon-user, cocoon-doc mailing lists and allow write access only to these registered users ? We don't have access to the list of registered email addresses on cocoon-* lists, and I doubt that will happen

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 13:46 Europe/London, Steven Noels wrote: while briefly checking the Wiki, I was confronted with some apparent abuse: people uploading attachments which don't have much to do with Cocoon (possibly just making benefit of the bandwidth we are sponsoring), people playing

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 15 March 2003 16:48, SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous wrote: > what about simply reusing the userlist from the cocoon-dev, cocoon-user, > cocoon-doc mailing lists and allow write access only to these > registered users ? > > That should make life easy... > I think, authors, who are NOT members

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread SAXESS - Hussayn Dabbous
what about simply reusing the userlist from the cocoon-dev, cocoon-user, cocoon-doc mailing lists and allow write access only to these registered users ? That should make life easy... I think, authors, who are NOT members of one of the mailinglists, cant be serious authors, because there is no fe

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-15 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Friday 14 March 2003 21:46, Steven Noels wrote: > Your thoughts, please: what kind of policy would you come up with, or > are willing to live up to? IP address blocking is no good. A lot of people have dynamic IPs (either by dial-up or ADSL). I favour a simple self-registration, with email ad

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-14 Thread Hussayn Dabbous
Hy, Steve; Would it be technically possible to allow Wiki-modifications only to people who are registered in the cocoon-doc mailing list? This would force any potential intruder to first register and doing this he must leave his anonyous state. As sideeffect the Wikiname could be set to the email

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Savory
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Steven Noels wrote: > while briefly checking the Wiki, I was confronted with some apparent > abuse > > Your thoughts, please: what kind of policy would you come up with, or > are willing to live up to? Maybe raise the bar slightly so it's less easy to make initial edits - add

Re: [heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-14 Thread Derek Hohls
Steven   This probably will be a short-lived "thing" - I might be tempted to switch off the file upload for a while - if you don't mind the admin then key files could be routed through you in the iterim. If it does not improve, then yes, block the IP addresses or ask folk to register in order t

[heads-up] wiki abuse: your advice please

2003-03-14 Thread Steven Noels
Folks, while briefly checking the Wiki, I was confronted with some apparent abuse: people uploading attachments which don't have much to do with Cocoon (possibly just making benefit of the bandwidth we are sponsoring), people playing around on certain non-Sandbox pages, even to the extreme of