On 20 November 2012 19:01, Rob Weir <rabas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another option is to do a reply to all on the moderation note. This
> white lists the address for posting.
Ok, hadn't realised that.
> 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.
>
--
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.
