+1 from my side....and +1 to NOT wait 72 hours, we need to block it.
Jan.
On 20 November 2012 13:00, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 20.11.2012 12:46, tj wrote:
>
>> Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on
>> a ML?
>> Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
>>
>> Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will
>> research what
>> change is required to block other sign-up methods.
>>
>> Currently, Mwiki is under massive attack by spammers. Thanks to the
>> valiant
>> efforts of volunteers Adailton, Helen russian, Pitonyak, and Yak, we are
>> staying
>> even: the lifetime of spam may be a few hours, but is usually only a few
>> minutes.
>>
>> However, the spammers are creating new spam accounts (the pattern in the
>> names
>> is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and 24/7. We
>> cannot
>> survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely.
>>
>> To be continued.
>>
>>
> From my point of view in such a situation we should not wait for 72 hours
> (lazy consensus time) for appropriate actions to protect our assets.
>
> Thus, +1 from my side.
> The change will hurt new Mwiki users, but it seems to be needed to protect
> our Mwiki.
>
> Best regards, Oliver.
>
> /tj/
>>
>>
