On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:25:02 +0100 C <smau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Purely out of interest, do any of the Wiki moderators see any general theme > > to the spam attacks? > > The accounts are autogenerated - there is no person sitting at a PC > somewhere creating accounts. The page content is generally random... > readable sentences, but gibberish. Some pages are 75% external links, > orthers are just links at the bottom of the page. There is no one > specific page they link out to... some is to blogs... most of it seems > to be to sites that are trying to sell something. It similar to the > cruft you see in your email spam folder. > > > > On the En-Forum a new User's initial post is queued until moderated - > > approved or disapproved. > > That can be done fairly easily with something like Flagged Revisions > on the Wiki.
Thank, Clayton. I was wondering if there might be a malicious anti-AOO intent behind the spam, but from what you say it does not seem likely. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
