Hi.
I have just received a bit strange e-mail from a
Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com
with the content:
May I suggest you subscribe to the dev list?
To subscribe to the list, send a message to:
<dev-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org>
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Wales.
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Is that a person in here (in which case I will respond to him), or can it
be an effect of the spam attacks ?, I have also being receiving a lot of
spam the last 48 hours, which are not caught by gmail ??
Rob:
What qualification would a Wiki maintainer need ? I used to maintain our
business sites, which were PHP and AJAX based, with MySql behind, it that
would fit, it is a job which I would volunteer for.
Thanks in advance for info about my mysterious mail.
Jan I
On 20 November 2012 16:57, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> I wouldn't do it permanently. We're just avoiding the real issue --
> we're not really maintaining our MWiki. If we don't get some site
> maintainer in there, to deal with upgrades, etc., the wiki will fall
> over for some other reason at a future point. When we deal with that
> then we'll join the many other MWiki sites that don't require
> extraordinary steps to keep spammers at bay.
>
> Maybe we should do a call for MWiki and phpBB admin types at some
> point? Our infrastructure needs are complex enough that this is
> project sub-discipline in itself.
>
> -Rob
>
> > 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/
> >>>
> >
>
