spam on wiki take 2...

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "robert" == Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> writes:

    robert> Well, today I deleted 18 spams *from today*.
    robert> This is getting ridiculous.

Yeah spam *is* ridiculous :-/

    robert> How about locking the wiki with an ACL with the following settings:

    robert>  - any user of the wiki can add people to the ACL to edit the wiki
    robert>  - all pages that are currently 'any user can edit' become 'users in
    robert> this acl can edit' - and we set it as the default for new pages.

    robert> This will force spammers to get someone already in the wiki users group
    robert> to add them before they can edit pages, so after a few days where we
    robert> find out the existing spammers, we should be spammer free.

    robert> On the down side, rather than 'its a wiki, you can contribute', we will
    robert> have 'its a wiki, get any existing wiki user to authorise you by asking
    robert> on IRC/mailing list'.

    robert> Which is a bit chilling on contribution, but perhaps
    robert> the nuisance value has got to this level.

As long as we mention that the policy is due to spam, people should understand.

   Vincent