On Fri, July 6, 2007 16:49, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Folks, > > The Trac Spammers have found our Trac instances and are actively spamming > those that allow anonymous ticket creation and modification. For example > this recent spam on the Mapbender trac instance: > > Changes (by anonymous): > > * cc: [email protected] (removed) > * cc: None (added) > * component: core => print > * summary: Titled GUIs (new zebra) => None > * version: 2.4.1 => 2.1 > * milestone: => Support usage of Styled Layer Descriptors (SLD) > * keywords: login, gui list => None > > Comment: > > {{{ > #!html > <u style="display:none"><a href=http://search- > painter.bravehost.com/map.html>Painter</a> <a href=http://the-interior- > design.bravehost.com/map.html>Interior design</a></u> > }}} > > Beyond the fact that our google karma is being redirected to serve > nefarious ends, there is also random damage being done to legitimate > trac tickets. > > For the time being I have disabled anonymous ticket creation and > modification. Anyone wanting to submit or modify a ticket will now > need to login with an OSGeo userid. If this is contrary to the wishes > of the Mapbender PSC I (or Astrid or Christoph) can revert this change. > > Best regards,
This is probably the best solution, thank you for making these changes. We will launch some information to this regard to the Mapbender users. Bets regards, -- Arnulf Benno Christl http://www.osgeo.org (OSGeo Board Member) +50.7342N +7.0707E _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
