RE: Horror Story: Calling Home

Dmytri Kleiner wrote on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:09 PM CEST:

> We discovered that the Wikis anti "link spam" module was hanging
> attempting to connect to the moinmaster server.

Yeah, the code is suboptimal. I did not write it though.

> Horror! The Wiki is calling home! What is this? Spyware? This was very
> embarassing for me, since I'm the moin booster around here.

No, it is not. It is a blacklist update which failed yesterday because of
instabilities of the main servers.

> Please, please, please, make sure that any outbound request from the
> Wiki engine default to **OFF**. This is just polite.

Of course that is standard config. You have to explicitly enable antispam. The
standard config does _not_ ship it enabled. So be polite and RTFM.

Kind regards,
Alexander



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