On 20 November 2012 17:06, jan iversen <j...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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>
>
It's because I am a moderator to the list and I keep getting e-mails for
moderation from you. Probably because you are sending them via a different
e-mail address. It would be easier if you subscribed the e-mail addresses
you use regularly for the list to reduce the moderation traffic.
When we get e-mails from non-subscribed addresses we are not sure if the
sender is going to see replies.
--
> Ian
>
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>
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>
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> Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and
> 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/
> > >>>
> > >
> >
>
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Ian
Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ)
www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940
The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth,
Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and
Wales.
