On 12-12-25, at 21:51 , RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier <[email protected]> > >> @jan, >> >> Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) >> the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, >> and I'm deeply suspicious of the other new accounts. Any ISP involved will >> be hearing from me. >> >> Do I assume correctly, that something (Apache server?) can be configured >> to reject IP addresses or ranges? If so, do you do that, or do we need to >> go through Infra? > > > > As a general rule I don't think that banning IP's is a good idea: most > people on the Internet have dynamic IP connections. I remember some years > ago that I was blocked from entering a comment on the extension site: the > IP I had at that time was banned because "used by spammers"... some days > later when my IP changed again I was able to log-in and post comments > without problems... > > Regards > Ricardo > > > I asked Florian of the Doc.Foundation what strategies they use to combat spam. No magic ballistic object. Just vigilantes.
-louis > >> >> >> /tj/ >> >> P.S.: Something is really slowing down any "save" (or delete) operations. >> I had one time out. I think the same was true of testwiki. Unless you're >> running a lot of background scripts, something is wrong. >> >>
