On 18.12.2011 15:20, Stefan Weil wrote: [] > It looks like the autoblock was created yesterday and > terminates automaticallytoday (see > http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Special:BlockList&action=search&ip=%23132). > > That won't help much as long as the wiki thinks that everyone > has the localhost address because the next autoblock will > block all users again. > > Are block lists really useful to protect the QEMU wiki? > Neither user names nor IP addresses are unique. > Spammerscan create any number of new names.
It is not the blocklist which is useful. By blocking _users_ I just mention that this is a spammer/bot, so we have a chance to clean up the dead users. And since autoblock by IP is enabled by default it triggers too. I will uncheck the checkbox the next time I'll block a user account. It'd be nice to uncheck it by default, too. Thanks, /mjt
