[ale] Ouch damnit

[Watson, Keith R.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles Shapiro
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 09:23
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Ouch damnit
> 
> Porn spammers have discovered the ALE wiki. I just spent 20 minutes
> manually deleting about fifteen pornographic web page attachments from
the
> ALE WebHome page.
> 
> To deal with this I may have to implement an approval process for wiki
> posts. I'm also looking on TWiki.org (http://twiki.org) for a less
> draconian solution.
> 
> Y'all have any other thoughts?
> 
> -- CHHS
> 


Charles,

We run quite a few wikis and swikis and have been battling the same
problem. So far the best solution has been requiring a password to post.
Most of the wiki spam is disseminated via an automated process. So if
you can create a process that requires a human to register and get a
password it puts a serious damper on wiki spam. This is a pain for
people who want to post but it eliminates the need to moderate every
entry.

Let's trade notes and maybe we can come up with a fix for the ALE wiki
that doesn't inconvenience us to badly but rally puts a crimp in the
wiki spammers day.

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280