[volunteergrid2-l] Twiki spam

Brad Rupp bradrupp at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 14:52:50 PDT 2011


Sounds like a good solution to me.  I don't see the VG2 Wiki ever having 
many users, so it shouldn't be a big management burden.

Brad

On 9/5/2011 3:42 PM, Jody Harris wrote:
> I am thinking about locking down the registration on the Wiki. We've
> finally started attracting the wiki spammers.
>
> What I've done on my personal Twiki is restrict access to the
> registration page to the group of registered users. That would mean
> that an existing member of VG2 would have to create the wiki user
> accounts for new users.
>
> It puts a rate-limiting step on access to the wiki, but it relieves me
> of having to clean up after the spammers.
>
> If no one has objections to this, I will make this change later this
> week. I will also await affirmations before taking this somewhat
> draconian step.
>
> In the mean time, I'm going to go do some wiki housekeeping.
>
> jody
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