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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 September 2007 14:55 > To: XWiki Users > 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
