On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, tj <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a
>> ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
>>
>
> How many "real" wiki accounts do we get on a typical (no-spam) day?
> Are we sure that the admins can handle that volume of manual account
> requests?
Managing real requests will certainly be less work than fighting spammers.
+1 to proceeding now with registration by request.
I'm actually for it permanently - although we should migrate to a wiki@oo.a.o
or admin@oo.a.o ML for these types of requests
Regards,
Dave
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> /tj/
>>
