Another option is to do a reply to all on the moderation note. This
white lists the address for posting. This is useful for cases where
someone posts from multiple addresses but only wants to receive one
copy of posts.
-Rob
On Nov 20, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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.
>> ------------
>>
>> 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/
>
>
>
> --
> 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.
