On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:21 -0400, Michael Olson wrote: > "Andy Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for your concern. I did not examine the data in the early > > days but recent contributions mostly came from explicitly logged in > > user accounts. However, what you say is valid and I may remove the > > restriction for a while to see how it goes. Recently the spam on > > the wiki has been somewhat annoying. > > What I do with the wiki that I maintain is to make the FrontPage only > writable to logged-in users, but make most (if not all) other pages > writable by everyone. This keeps spam out of the most embarrassing > and noticeable place, but permits easy editing of information pages.
We used to see scripts hit several pages adding hundreds of links before it was made authenticated-user-only. This rarely affected the frontpage anyway at that point. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
