On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Esbach, Brandon wrote:

> Well,
>
> I must admit, spammers and ther ilk certainly show a lot of tenacity.
> While it's true that nobody but them will see their adds, I doubt they
> care - usually it's "how many, how fast", and not "how many would buy"
> that pays.
>
> There is a "comment" permission which you can lock down though; but I
> was surprised to see the "attachment" permission gone.  Is there a
> reason attachment was removed since 0.9?

No idea. I don't recall seeing any such permissions but then I only  
joined xwiki for 1.0 beta 1... ;)

-Vincent

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> Subject: [xwiki-users] Spam attack...register new user
>
> Hi,
>
> This may not be new to some of you, but it is new to me.
>
> This summer, one of my sites saw many spam 'ad comments' on new user
> pages. Someone register himself/herself and leave comments on the
> register new user page (which I should not left open to all).
>
> I guess someone hired summer students to do this, they may want to
> google bomb with links on many web sites pointing to their sites. So,
> this 1+1= method did not stop spammers.
>
> I only show user lists to admin, so this attack did not add any  
> value to
> spammers. I changed the access control, so that visitors can not  
> welcome
> themselves to be a user.
>
> So, XWiki admins, you are informed. This is just my two cents.
>
> Wei-hsing
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