There are a few of us with admin access, although personally, I don't know what to do about it. Is there anyone else who would like to help out with this?
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Russell Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Can whomever runs the wiki forum take this to heart? I've noticed some > spam being posted on the wiki, and the last thing I need is for > something illegal to get posted. > > --Russell > > Forwarded by Russell Miller <[email protected]> > ----------------------- Original Message ----------------------- > From: restaurantlancaster <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:41:56 -0700 > Subject: Auto-Response: Do not auto-approve this forum account, it was > created by a forum spammer. Re: Your Tiki information registration > (wiki.opengraphics.org) > ---- > > You're receiving this message because your forum software is still > allowing a user to complete the first part of registration to your > forum with an easy password. This is an auto-response to your forum's > confirmation message. That means your security settings are way too > low on your forum, even if you are manually approving new accounts. > > The account which created this forum account did so using automated > means. The reason was so that he could post a forum account and then > use it to automatically post thousands of fake messages to your forum > to promote some form of ridiculous product there. > > In all likelihood your website has nothing to do with whatever this > idiot is promoting, but in any case you definitely do not want to be > promoting this scumbag's websites. > > Delete this account, and any other account tied to the email address > which sent you this automated response. > > The way to prevent this activity from continuing is to make all new > registrations require a more complex, secure password. Increase the > required length and make sure it requires uppercase, lowercase and > punctuation characters. Do not allow automated self-registration of > new accounts. If you've been getting a lot of messages like the one > you're reading now, that means your forum is still far too easy to > register at, even if you manually approve the accounts. > > Apologies for any further inconveniences this message causes. > > Sincerely, > > Random Digilante > > http://randomdigilante.blogspot.com/ > > > --------------------- Original Message Ends -------------------- > > -- > Russell Miller <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
