Re: Closing KDE Spread site (spread.kde.org)

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 02, 2012 17:04:12 Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>>> As some of you may be aware, a site called Spread KDE
>>>> (http://spread.kde.org) exists which is now disused.
>>>> Unfortunately this site has forms on it which are being used
>>>> maliciously, and given that the site is not hosted on our systems, and
>>>> is out of date and no longer used, I would like to close the site.
>>>>
>>>> If nobody objects I will do this in 72 hours.
>>>
>>> Hm, the content on the site isn't out of date. The form there is less than
>>> useful, only generating spam, but the actual pages are useful, and as far as I
>>> can see accurate.
>>>
>>> Can't we just ditch the form?
>>
>> If we knew someone who had access to the site we could.
>> The site is hosted by an OSUOSL server, and I have not been able to
>> locate any documentation regarding the site.
>>
>> Therefore I can't send Carl a copy of the site's contents - and we
>> have no backups of it (the OSUOSL folks probably do though)
>
> Ok, can you wait a few days then while we try and salvage useful
> content? In the first case this can be just manual saving of web pages
> - I might even have time for that tonight.

Certainly. We'll see if someone can manage to dredge up some
credentials for the site too, which would be preferable - as i'd like
to archive the site ideally.

By the looks of it, the site has not been maintained as such - it
looks to be running Drupal 5 or earlier, which is probably why
Spammers are able to abuse the contact form.

>
> Or will the site still be available afterwards (by IP maybe) but no
> longer via spread.kde.org? If that is the case, then as far as I'm
> concerned the spread.kde.org source of access can be taken away.

I suspect it will not be as the hosting server is almost certain to be
a system which heavily uses Virtual hosts.

>
> Cheers,
> Stu - not Carl ;-)

Oops :( Sorry about that, guess I should not reply to email at 11pm....

Regards,
Ben

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