Re: [Plplot-devel] Urgent. On-going spam attack on our wiki

[Werner S. <wer...@mi...>]

I just wrote a longer email to Alan, in short: I think I have deleted 
all junk pages. I hope I didn't delete a "good" one. Sorry, for not 
keeping an eye on the wiki.

Regards,
Werner

> 	Alan W. Irwin <mailto:ir...@be...>
> February 16, 2011 3:52 AM
>
>
> Hi Werner:
>
> I am forwarding the autobounced (because Michael was not subscribed) 
> message below
> to plplot_devel because of its urgency.
>
> <quote>
> It appears that the Plplot Wiki has suffered from a high number of
> recent spam postings. The home page is unusable, see:
> http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges 
>
>
> Michael C. Robbeloth
> </quote>
>
> I confirm this issue. I trust you have a recent backup to allow
> restoration of our site without the spam?
>
> Of course, once spammers find you it is relentless so you may want to
> take this opportunity to move our Wiki to SourceForge like you have
> suggested before.  SourceForge generally have excellent anti-spam
> configuration options for all their services.
>
> Alan
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> Alan W. Irwin
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>
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> software
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