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>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 is out of date and no longer used, I would like to close the site.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 Hm, the content on the site isn't out of date.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)
>>
>>> 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.
Ok, I have a question: If it's possible to get the credentials to the
Drupal site why not update it to the point that it's usable again? It would
be some work but it might be worth it. As its been said, that site still
has some useful content on it. Hey, I'm learning stuff just by exploring
this thing. Maybe we could start putting it to better use?
If that's not an option, I can start copying it to a wiki.
T.J.
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