On 9/17/05, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Webware Wiki is currently in a very desolate state due to some > > Chinese Wiki spammers. > > Some users have tried to remove the spam manually, but that seems to be > > even more difficult than Sysiphus' task. > > I would help if some trusted users would be given the possibility to > > delete the spammers' Wiki accounts, place their IP addresses on a > > blacklist and rollback all changes made with these accounts. > > ... > > Also, in the registration some sort of "captcha" might help that only > > people with some Python knowledge can pass. > > With the help of Ian, I have now revamped the Webware Wiki. All spam > sjhould be removed, and everything mentioned above is now implemented, > except the blacklists. Administrators can now very easily rollback > changes and remove abused user accounts, and there is a simple captcha > when you create an account. If this will not suffice, I will also > implement blacklists. > > I was baffled to see how unapologetic egoistic these Chinese spammers > use Wikis like ours in order to do their marketing. One of them was > trading with packing machines, he did not even mind to use his real > email address for registration as a user. > > I hope the Wiki has become a more enjoyable place now...
Thanks to you and Ian for fixing this, -Chuck ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list Webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
