wiki spam

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Sep 17 02:23:42 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:11 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 9/14/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > Seems our wiki has been discovered by wiki spammers.
> >
> > Disabling a spammers user id requires access to the filesystem - its a
> > privileged operation, so the easiest route is to contact one of the
> > Canonical staff on #bzr to escalate this to the sysadmins. I'll
> > certainly be forwarding usernames I note to be spamming to the
> > sysadmins.
> 
> It looks like, even before we've started blocking them, they are using
> new usernames for each attempt.

I think we're on a list somewhere; certainly I have seen the same
username for several different spams so far.

-Rob
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