Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam problem is MUCH worse, actually

2011-08-05 Thread mail
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: arent there CAPTCHA's that prevent spam bots from getting in, granted that it might be a user who posts the links Google for CAPTCHA solving or CAPTCHA farmers, they even have automated API's Add to that things

Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam problem is MUCH worse, actually

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Friedrich
Keith Erekson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In typical Mediawiki fashion... looks like user registration has been left on, resulting in 1000+ users: http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUserslimit=500 Which leads to the wiki being used to host all

Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam problem is MUCH worse, actually

2011-08-04 Thread mail
Humm it is of course a community wiki so We could delete the spam links. We don't have permissions to delete pages of course. This is a problem with most Wiki's I admin a medium sized wiki and have to delete spam pages every day. Ritchie -- -- http://23.me.uk/2 -- --Time flies like an arrow;

Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam problem is MUCH worse, actually

2011-08-04 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
arent there CAPTCHA's that prevent spam bots from getting in, granted that it might be a user who posts the links On 04/08/2011 23:09, m...@catsnest.co.uk wrote: Humm it is of course a community wiki so We could delete the spam links. We don't have permissions to delete pages of course. This