Re: [Flightgear-devel] wiki spammer

[bsupnik <bs...@xs...>]

Hi Guys,

We had to put logins onto the X-Plane SDK wiki - we got spammed pretty 
hard.  Since the auth was put in we've had no problems.

*cheers*
Ben

Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Looks like our wiki is the target of a pr0n spam bot. It obviously
> uses zombies, and there's no reasonable way to block it other than with
> making logging in mandatory. Blocking IP addresses is pointless and
> will lead nowhere. I don't even consider mandatory login a bad thing --
> why would we want anonymous people to edit FlightGear content? These
> pages are very visible to the public, and content found there is linked
> to the project. (BTW: I also find it undesirable that people use nicks
> in the Wiki. I prefer to see who edited what, and being able to contact
> him/her via email. How would I contact "FlightZilla"?)
> 
> m.
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