Lilianne E. Blaze wrote: > Please, take the issue a bit more seriously. As it is, there's no way to > take a standard XWiki and make it spam-proof. Things like flexible > validation mails, captchas, bad words filters, spam ip filters, they > should be given very high priority, and they should work out-of-the-box, > not treated as fluff. It's 2009, spammers, scammers, hackers, script > kiddies everywhere. > > Put yourself in noob's shoes for a minute, try to set up a public-edit > wiki as a typical Joe "I just want it to work" User would, you'd be > ears-deep in spam as soon as it hit the google index. > > And don't think mail auth has nothing to do with it - I'm willing to bet > half a year's income that if you randomly choose 10 hosting providers 7 > of them will refuse to set up open relays, and 2 out of remaining 3 > won't have any security at all.
This is why I reformulated the AntiVandalism project ( http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/AntiVandalismFilter ) to address these issues (except mail server authentication), and we have quite a lot of students applying for it. I hope that Ludovic, Vincent and the other mentors will also consider it important and accept at least one of the great students that applied for it. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
