Re: Wiki spam

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> We have ourself a spammer, inserting links to their auto-parts store into
> random high-level articles on the Wiki yesterday:
>  http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Masini
>
> Those are all reverted, and I picked the standard options to block the user
> account forever as well.  That includes blocking any IP addresses they now
> try to edit from as well, to make it more difficult to just start over with
> another account from the same location at least once they realize they've
> been caught.

Thanks Greg.

> That means this list is now not empty:
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist and any future addresses
> they try to edit from will end up on an IP block list there.  That
> theoretically that could turn into an unfair block for someone else at that
> same location one day; hopefully we won't see enough of these for it to be a
> problem.
>
> Last week was the Wiki's second anniversary.  Pretty long time to make it
> without accumulating any blocked users.

Not bad really. Certainly far better than I ever expected (this was
precisely the reason I always used to object to having a wiki - glad
to be proven wrong, or at least delayed in this case :-) ).

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