On Saturday 15 March 2003 18:29, Matt Sergeant wrote: > 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 around on certain non-Sandbox pages, even > > to the extreme of erasing the Main page, and various other > > not-so-funny things. I'm very happy to see some people go in and > > correct, and the new 'restore latest version' feature of JSPWiki sure > > helps with this. > > > > Nevertheless, I'm annoyed a bit by the lack of adult behaviour by some > > IP addresses, and was wondering whether (and how) I should block them. > > I know this sounds pretty harsh, and that's why I'm polling you guys > > to see what you would think would be a fair policy. > > FYI, when people do this on the Apache AxKit Wiki, I block their IP at > our firewall. Harsh, but fair. And no complaints so far.
If I have malicious intent, I just dial-up an ISP and go ahead with it. Your remedy is not effective. I have proposed a simple login instead... Just make you accountable is a great deterent.
