Re: Fwd: [Db Wiki] Trivial Update of "FernandoO" by FernandoO

[Knut Anders Hatlen <kn...@oracle.com>]

Myrna van Lunteren <m....@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Kim Haase <ca...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I'm guessing it's would-be spammers trying to set up a legitimate-looking
>> URL. Thanks for continuing to delete the pages (to whoever is doing that).
>>
>> Kim
>>
>>
>> On 3/29/2013 8:26 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why we are seeing these changes to the wiki? Thanks
>>>
>
> Kim is right.
> There is/are manual spammers who are creating these. The automated
> spammers cannot cope with answering the question, but at this point,
> our wiki is open to anyone...and the answers to the questions are
> easily found.
>
> After the first one, which Knut Anders deleted, *I* have been deleting
> them, but depending on how many we get I might get very tired of this.
> We may at one point think of implementing the restrictions other
> projects have gone to already - see:
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_-_tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot
>
> This suggests we could create an Admin group to which we'd have to
> request access to, and then only those with access can modify the
> wiki.
>
> It's a sad thing that this is necessary for an open source project,
> but there it is.
>
> From other groups' questions to infra (specifically River) I noted the
> following further point:
> - we may need to log an issue like this:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6010
>
> For now, I'll just delete that puppy...

It doesn't seem to slow down, and I guess we all have better things to
spend our time on than removing spam from the wiki, so I'd vote for
implementing the tighter access control scheme.

Thanks,

-- 
Knut Anders

Re: Fwd: [Db Wiki] Trivial Update of "FernandoO" by FernandoO

[Dag Wanvik <da...@oracle.com>]

+1 to tightening the access control scheme

Dag

Re: Fwd: [Db Wiki] Trivial Update of "FernandoO" by FernandoO

[Rick Hillegas <ri...@oracle.com>]

On 4/7/13 2:13 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
> On 4/7/13 6:29 AM, Katherine Marsden wrote:
>> On 4/7/2013 1:58 AM, Knut Anders Hatlen wrote:
>>> For now, I'll just delete that puppy...
>>> It doesn't seem to slow down, and I guess we all have better things to
>>> spend our time on than removing spam from the wiki, so I'd vote for
>>> implementing the tighter access control scheme.
>> That has my vote too and then hopefully we can get rid of the questions.
>>
> I agree -- I watch these wiki updates and also delete spam (unless 
> somebody beats me to it).
>
>  -jean
>
+1

Re: Fwd: [Db Wiki] Trivial Update of "FernandoO" by FernandoO

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@fastmail.fm>]

On 4/7/13 6:29 AM, Katherine Marsden wrote:
> On 4/7/2013 1:58 AM, Knut Anders Hatlen wrote:
>> For now, I'll just delete that puppy...
>> It doesn't seem to slow down, and I guess we all have better things to
>> spend our time on than removing spam from the wiki, so I'd vote for
>> implementing the tighter access control scheme.
> That has my vote too and then hopefully we can get rid of the questions.
>
I agree -- I watch these wiki updates and also delete spam (unless 
somebody beats me to it).

  -jean

Re: Fwd: [Db Wiki] Trivial Update of "FernandoO" by FernandoO

[Katherine Marsden <km...@sbcglobal.net>]

On 4/7/2013 1:58 AM, Knut Anders Hatlen wrote:
> For now, I'll just delete that puppy...
> It doesn't seem to slow down, and I guess we all have better things to
> spend our time on than removing spam from the wiki, so I'd vote for
> implementing the tighter access control scheme.
That has my vote too and then hopefully we can get rid of the questions.