On Mon, 15 May 2006, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Hello Christian,
it seems that we have a spam problem:
Recent wiki posts:
* http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Seminar - 16:44 14/05 by yellow pages
* http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs - 16:44 14/05 by yellow pages
* http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll - 16:44 14/05 by yellow pages
* http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unanswered - 16:44 14/05 by yellow pages
* http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/LaTeX - 16:44 14/05 by yellow pages
* http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Concepts - 16:45 14/05 by pagerank
* http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/RecentChanges - 16:45 14/05 by pagerank
* http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136 - 16:45 14/05 by pagerank
I restored the pages but how can we avoid this in the future? We had a
password for the wiki in the past.
Thanks for restoring the pages.
FWIW, I don't think their spam helped them... external links must be
approved before they become active. As far as I know, we have at least
these options:
* Wait and see if it happens again, i.e. how big of a problem is this.
This means hoping they (the author of the robot) realises that the
result isn't links, which is what he wants. Especially if he's after
page ranking.
* Blacklist IPs and user names - probably not that effective long term
* Start using a password for approving URIs
* Start using a password for editing pages.
For now I think we should look out to see if something like this happens
again, and then take some action. And probably discuss that action first
on the user's list.
What do you think?
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
