All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: wiki spam
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:43:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE0BA38.4010505@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120618133323.GA11845@infradead.org>

On 6/18/2012 8:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I just had to delete dozends of link farm spam entries on the xfs.org.
> 
> This is getting a bit out of control, so I'm wondring what we can do
> about it.
> 
> I wonder if it's reasonable only to hand out account if a user manually
> contacts one of the admins.  I don't want the bar high, just proving
> to be able to writing a human person mail basically.

Perfectly reasonable.  Quite frankly I was surprised long ago when I
learned it was totally open, given the small size of the XFS community,
and the opportunity for mischief, or just factual errors, ala many
Wikipedia articles.

-- 
Stan

_______________________________________________
xfs mailing list
xfs@oss.sgi.com
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-19 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18 13:33 wiki spam Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-18 13:39 ` Roger Willcocks
2012-06-19  1:29 ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-19 17:43 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-14  0:11 Wiki spam Øyvind A. Holm
2012-07-19 15:53 wiki spam Eric Sandeen
2012-07-24 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-24 14:43   ` Russell Cattelan
2012-07-24 21:02   ` Russell Cattelan
2012-05-31  7:05 Wiki Spam "SPONEM, Benoît"
2012-05-31 11:51 ` Mark Nelson
2011-11-29 23:55 Wiki SPAM xen-devel.GarveyPatrickD
2011-08-01 15:28 Wiki spam Tommi Virtanen
2010-12-23 19:36 Ben Gamari
2010-12-23 21:33 ` Cliff Brake
2010-12-23 22:14   ` Khem Raj
2011-01-04 15:16     ` Steffen Sledz
2011-01-04 18:15       ` AJ ONeal
2011-01-04 18:38         ` Philip Balister
2011-01-04 19:31           ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-01-04 20:41       ` Bernhard Guillon
2011-01-06 18:57         ` Sledz, Steffen
2010-11-24  7:50 Wiki SPAM Eric Bénard
2010-11-24  8:38 ` Chris Tapp
2010-11-24  9:24 ` Marco Cavallini
2009-01-09  9:49 wiki spam André-Sebastian Liebe
2009-01-09 14:29 ` Chris Mason
2005-10-30 14:30 Ian Pratt
2005-10-30 14:16 Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-10-30 16:15 ` Christian Leber

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4FE0BA38.4010505@hardwarefreak.com \
    --to=stan@hardwarefreak.com \
    --cc=xfs@oss.sgi.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.