From: David Ross Date: 2004-09-28T21:01:25+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam Chad Fowler wrote: >On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:29:04 +0900, James Britt > wrote: > > >>The rubygarden wiki has been over-run with spam links. >> >>220.163.37.233 is one of the offending source IP addresss. >> >>I fixed the home page, and then saw the extent of the crap. Looks like >>many personal pages have been altered. >> >>Those with user pages may want to go check their own page to assist with >>the clean up. >> >> >> > >I've got a list, but it has become obvious that maintaining a list >manually isn't going to work. I'm tempted to require registration and >authentication at this point as much as I hate the thought. > >Chad > As much as I like the idea of having authenticatoin, I don't think it would work. Automation of scripts or a program would allow them to bypass the authentication system. These attacks are not automatic, they are performmed manually by morons. --dross