Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote: > Op Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:58:03 +1000 > schreef Andrew R. <[email protected]>:
> > Do any other members have suggestions for ways we can stop the spam > > attacks? > > The only thing I can think of right now is some kind of authorization > for new accounts. I didn't check yet what the options are in MoinMoin. > Probably needs someone to babysit account requests. That cure might be > worse than the disease. Possibly, but new legitimate accounts aren't created /that/ fast. Depending on the options it may be possible to send applications to an email address (mailing list?) or have anyadmin user ok/deny the account. hopefully that would mean all accounts are processed in <=24 hours. > > Also, I think the wiki has fail2ban on it but I heard it wasn't > > working. > > I'll have to check that again. I'm sure it has worked in the past, > because I hit the limit myself a few times when doing mass spam > removal. If its worked, awesome :D (even if it was a false positive!) thanks, kk _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
