Hi all, We've had worst Spam attacks and the cases have been solved by all the wiki admins without having to apply further restrictions to access.
Cheers! 2008/6/20 Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam. Requiring > logins makes tracking casual vandals harder without making it harder for any > dedicated vandal such as this one from doing their devious deeds. > > Of course, if you want to restrict viral communication on our wiki by > increasing the barrier to entry for casual participants... :-) > > SJ > > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating on >> the wiki, trying to blank wiki pages, like in the case of the following: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multi-hop_mesh_network_in_MIT_campus >> >> Is there a way to prevent that? Why not require user logins to make edits? >> >> p. >> >> -- >> Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos >> Graduate student >> Viral Communications >> MIT Media Lab >> Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 >> http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ <http://www.mit.edu/%7Eypod/> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero One Laptop Per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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