Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
I just took a look at Frank's member folder (frankwk), and it had different permissions from the default for a member. I did not make that change, so I don't know why it was different. I have now changed it to be like the other member folders. Janet : i can see my private parts oops Folder now Thanks ! Maybe somebody switch me off when i was by accident on the new hidden German site: I saw my private folder open there for the first time and was checking to see how it worked.. Next day it was switched off again.. The longer term solution to our recent technical problems will be to upgrade our server software. I will be spending time this Sunday learning more about what needs to be done to make that happen. regarding technical problems: 1/ I still have at almost every other access : site not found ooathors.org Wonder if that because of the Dynamic.dns which is in between de real name servers ? 2/ My smtp server once complained that the alias table was not setup properly and refused forwarding mail. 3/ It is very slow now : less than 2K/s many times just a few hundred bytes/s But with the help of the persons in this group, things are getting better and better ! Thanks for the help! -- Kind regards, Frank _ Frank W. Kooistra Spoorsingel 89 2613 BB Delft t:+3 16 45 77 00 17
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Sigrid Kronenberger wrote: Hi Janet, Janet Swisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Janet Swisher wrote: I've made a change to the security permissions on the site such that it should not be necessary to take this drastic a step. Now, content in members' folders can only be viewed by users in the Author group (and the member who created it). This should foil the spammers' schemes to use the oooauthors site for redirects to other sites. The spam content can now be cleaned up at leisure. It looks like I went a little too far, and members cannot, in fact, see their own folders. I will fix that today. could you please tell us, what the result of this is? I haven't seen a second mail from you, answering your last note on this topic. It might be, that I've missed something, so can you please update me. Thanks a lot. Sigrid I apologize for not following this up. Yes, I did make the change to allow members to see their own folders. I just took a look at Frank's member folder (frankwk), and it had different permissions from the default for a member. I did not make that change, so I don't know why it was different. I have now changed it to be like the other member folders. Are other members having problems accessing *their own* member folders? (I want to make sure that much is working first, then worry about giving access to other users' folders.) The longer term solution to our recent technical problems will be to upgrade our server software. I will be spending time this Sunday learning more about what needs to be done to make that happen. -- Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
CPHennessy wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:38, CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Oops, I'm sorry for the confusion. I did not mean to remove members from this mailing list, rather to remove members from the oooauthors.org web site who have not requested the authors role. Recently many members joined the oooauthors.org website only to use the members home folder to upload spam HTML to redirect hits to other sites - I presume that this is they get pay-per-clicks or similar. I have no intention of changing anything to do with authors@user-faq.openoffice.org mailing list. I've made a change to the security permissions on the site such that it should not be necessary to take this drastic a step. Now, content in members' folders can only be viewed by users in the Author group (and the member who created it). This should foil the spammers' schemes to use the oooauthors site for redirects to other sites. The spam content can now be cleaned up at leisure. -- Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:14, Janet Swisher wrote: I've made a change to the security permissions on the site such that it should not be necessary to take this drastic a step. Now, content in members' folders can only be viewed by users in the Author group (and the member who created it). This should foil the spammers' schemes to use the oooauthors site for redirects to other sites. The spam content can now be cleaned up at leisure. Thanks alot for your work on this Janet. CPH
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Janet Swisher wrote: I've made a change to the security permissions on the site such that it should not be necessary to take this drastic a step. Now, content in members' folders can only be viewed by users in the Author group (and the member who created it). This should foil the spammers' schemes to use the oooauthors site for redirects to other sites. The spam content can now be cleaned up at leisure. It looks like I went a little too far, and members cannot, in fact, see their own folders. I will fix that today. -- Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Walter A. March wrote: CPHennessy wrote: I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Depend on whether that includes me or not. I have a Developer role in Documentation. [...] The Developer role at OOo Documentation is totally separate from the Author role at OOoAuthors. The websites are different. Usually a request for Author role at OOoAuthors (made on this list, usually in a note stating a bit about the requester's interests) is answered within a day. --Jean
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Rob Unsworth wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Totally unreasonable, you are punishing the innocent in the hope you will punish the guilty. Why would non authors have a home directory? and why would they have upload permissions? If your stated reason is valid the most likley culprit has an authors role. Until this latest episode of spamming, I was under the impression that people did not have home directories unless they had the Author role. This assumption has been proven to be incorrect, because the one username I personally checked did not have that role, only the Member role. There is no real need for someone to have a Member role at OOoAuthors to be able to participate in this mailing list, although you do need it to log in and see, for example, the Review List. If we can do it using Plone, I think a better solution is to restrict home directories to those with the Author role. --Jean
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
hi CPHennessy, can you please take me out of this list!?! Best regards Bernhard CPHennessy schrieb: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ?
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Hi, It seems that e are in a lot of trouble ut is not this a case of cutting off ones hand to maybe save ones face. I am not sure what permissions i have but i am writing documentation How will people like me get back onto the list. I think that ther may be simper answers such as working in small trusted cells when creating and testing documentation and only then contacting the list Jim Nichterlein
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:38, CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Oops, I'm sorry for the confusion. I did not mean to remove members from this mailing list, rather to remove members from the oooauthors.org web site who have not requested the authors role. Recently many members joined the oooauthors.org website only to use the members home folder to upload spam HTML to redirect hits to other sites - I presume that this is they get pay-per-clicks or similar. I have no intention of changing anything to do with authors@user-faq.openoffice.org mailing list. CPH
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:34, Bernhard Keppner wrote: hi CPHennessy, can you please take me out of this list!?! You can do this yourself by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and replying to the confirmation request. CPH
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Depend on whether that includes me or not. I have a Developer role in Documentation. I did just request a role in the user-faq project but I got this in response user-faq Request project membership/role Missing field Request project role Your roles in this project: * Observer Pending approval Specify the role you want to request in the user-faq project. Role I get this with Mozilla 1.7.13 and Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Windows 2000 Thanks, WalterAM
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
I think this is OK, as long as there is no restriction on being an active author. It has been a long time since I have used my author role, but I do still read the list (and hope to again, someday, actively participate. -- John Viestenz - Original Message - From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: authors@user-faq.openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
John Viestenz wrote: I think this is OK, as long as there is no restriction on being an active author. It has been a long time since I have used my author role, but I do still read the list (and hope to again, someday, actively participate. -- John Viestenz Agreed with the above. I'm in an identical situation Cheers Yo - Original Message - From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: authors@user-faq.openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, CPHennessy wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? Totally unreasonable, you are punishing the innocent in the hope you will punish the guilty. Why would non authors have a home directory? and why would they have upload permissions? If your stated reason is valid the most likley culprit has an authors role. -- Regards, | Lions District 201 Q3 Rob Unsworth | IT Internet Chairman Ipswich, Australia| http://www.lionsq3.asn.au -
Re: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Graham wrote: John Viestenz wrote: I think this is OK, as long as there is no restriction on being an active author. It has been a long time since I have used my author role, but I do still read the list (and hope to again, someday, actively participate. -- John Viestenz Agreed with the above. I'm in an identical situation Cheers Yo Though not a developer I do visit now and then to help test new additions and would care to continue doing so. Maybe a means of becoming an observer member might allow you to delete inactive authors from the authors list whilst retaining the assistance of readers such as myself ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 [ http://counter.li.org/ ] [img]http://www.danasoft.com/sig/Snapafun.jpg[/img]
RE: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions
Yes. From: CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: authors@user-faq.openoffice.org To: authors@user-faq.openoffice.org Subject: [authors] Removing all users without Author permissions Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:38:49 +0100 Hi all, I'm trying to cleanup members on this list to help reduce spammers using uploading files to their home directories. As part of this, I'm considering removing all users who do not have the Author role. Does this seem reasonable ? -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ
