[Box Backup] Wiki spambots

[Stuart Hickinbottom]

I don't, I'm afraid, but I wonder whether this is the right time to migrate
the contents to the Trac wiki? Trac 0.10 is supposed to have some anti-spam
support built-in that uses the same techniques as WordPress (which seems to
be quite effective in my experience).

I'm not sure about mediawiki, but with Trac you can restrict updates to
registered users whilst allowing anonymous users to create their own
accounts. That, coupled with its Akismet spam detection, might turn the
tables for a while at least.

I wouldn't mind helping with the migration if that was the consensus as I've
quite a bit of experience with Trac myself.

I never really understood the rationale behind keeping both (although it's
probably on a wiki page I've just not read!). 

Stuart 

-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-admin at fluffy.co.uk [mailto:boxbackup-admin at fluffy.co.uk] On
Behalf Of Ben Summers
Sent: 21 November 2006 17:59
To: boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Subject: [Box Backup] Wiki spambots


Spambots have trashed the wiki, and it needs a really careful clean.  
Anyone know of any good defenses, or will we just have to manually  
approve accounts for editing, thus making the wiki thing kind of  
pointless?

Ben



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