From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: wiki spam
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:29:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120619012955.GI25389@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120618133323.GA11845@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:33:23AM -0400, 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.
Sounds fine to me, I went through about a month ago and deleted a
bunch of spam myself. Even just requiring a confirmation email (i.e.
wiki sends an email with a confirm link) would be sufficient to
prevent most spam, I think....
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-19 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ 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 [this message]
2012-06-19 17:43 ` Stan Hoeppner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-19 15:53 Eric Sandeen
2012-07-24 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-24 14:43 ` Russell Cattelan
2012-07-24 21:02 ` Russell Cattelan
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