[volunteergrid2-l] Twiki spam

[Jody Harris]

Done. New members will have to have existing Twiki members create
Twiki account on their behalf.... I guess I should have updated the
wiki page for that, but I didn't. I guess I'll get to it later if
someone else doesn't beat me to it. (Hint. nudge.)

jody
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On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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