Bram Moolenaar wrote: > So I created a page that can be edited: > http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches > > I have added the 2008 Google Summer of Code entries as an example. > If you want people to know your Vim patch, please add it here! > > This should be an overview, with links to where more > information can be found. Add just enough information for > people to know if this is an interesting patch for them. > > To make the page editable I had to enable adding and editing > pages for group members. That probably means we will get > some spam. Please remove it when you see it.
Can't we use the wiki for this? The wiki has an excellent history, and methods to undo spam that are easy and bullet proof. In addition, the "recent changes" page on the wiki is regularly patrolled: all edits are checked. By contrast, the Google web pages are a time bomb. A common attack leaves the web page unchanged in appearance, but alters the link targets to MALWARE SITES that try to entice users to install trojans, and which may try to exploit browser bugs to auto-install malware. This is not a theoretical attack: IT HAS HAPPENED to vim_use and vim_mac. In one case, it was quite easy to revert the attack, but in another case some glitch occurred and half-an-hour's messing around was required to clean up. I think that was a bug in Google Groups, and not something clever that the spammer had done. However, there are reliable reports that spammers put stuff in spam pages that make it hard to edit or delete the page. Here is a claimed example (browsing the group shows that author Virden gives excellent advice): http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Basics/browse_thread/thread/3c29774c081 aaa03/ Here is more info about attacker polartest: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?qt_s=1&q=polartest John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
