From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q5J1UkS5007660 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:30:46 -0500 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id yXTEi61sCBhmsZII for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:29:55 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: wiki spam Message-ID: <20120619012955.GI25389@dastard> References: <20120618133323.GA11845@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120618133323.GA11845@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs