Re: Spam Documents.

"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAAvzgtYMb078sauy2yEGC8u+bm88Aur8=xtWVUcKeXkfbGOSOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:07 AM, K Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > GoboLinux Knowledge Base is now extensively infected with span documents.
> > http://wiki.gobolinux.org/index.php?title=Special:AllPages
> >
> > With reference to previous emails, none of the suggestions made by James
> > Browning were implemented.
> >
> http://lists.gobolinux.org//pipermail/gobolinux-users/2011-May/008656.html
> >
> > Since the Forum has been shut down, perhaps similar action should be
> taken
> > protect the valuable source of GoboLinux Knowledge Base.
>
> Thanks for the updated heads up.
>
> I just spent a few hours on this and took a number of measures to work
> on the spam problem:
>
> * The wiki now requires registration in order to edit
> * Registration requires email confirmation
> * A math captcha was added
> * The SpamBlacklist extension was added
> * A major cleanup of the wiki was performed, removing spam links and
> deleting spam pages. There may still be some spam content lurking,
> though.
>
>
Thanks much for having gone through all that work to improve it!

-- 
Lucas
"If you're looking for a reason I've a reason to give: pleasure, little
treasure"

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