On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:03 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like William just redirected ask.sagemath to his own homepage for now.
I have disabled http://ask.sagemath.org until somebody fixes the backend spam-related problems. Hosting spam = quick way to have all my network access at University of Washington blocked (again). -- William > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:50:18 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:40:56 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:11:33 AM UTC-5, Niles Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> Now that I've spent a little time thinking about this, here are some >>>> comments: >>>> >>>> * I misread our version of askbot -- it's over 2 years old >>>> >>> >>> True. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> * recent versions of askbot (6 months ago or so) can put a captcha on >>>> users' first posts >>>> >>>> * some of the spam is posted as "Anonymous" -- but that still requires a >>>> login; I'd like to know which openID provider the spammer is using >>>> >>>> * there is a blockip branch on the askbot repository, but it's pretty >>>> old and looks like it didn't get finished >>>> https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/pull/81 >>> >>> >>> What do you suggest for right now? I can't find any setting that is >>> relevant, can't delete all posts with a certain tag or from a user (you can >>> block the user but the posts remain) - someone with access to the actual >>> machine will have to start looking at IPs or something... >> >> >> If we were evil, we could do DoS to the email and phone # in question. >> But we are, fortunately, not evil - perhaps unlike our mystery spammer. >> >> Does someone have access to the actual database? I suppose it could be >> done at that really low level too. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
