From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T22:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGarden Spam

On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 10:53:17 PM, Curt wrote:

> Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]
>>
>> Austin Zeigler is adding authentication to Ruwiki, and Tom
>> Copeland is going
>> to tie that into the RubyForge. So once all this is in place, the default
>> RubyForge wiki will be Ruwiki and a single login to RubyForge will suffice
>> for all normal RubyForge activities *as well as* all RubyForge
>> hosted wikis.
>>
>> This will help, but obviously won't be the final answer. At least we will
>> have a wiki written in Ruby, maintained by someone in our own community,
>> where we can react intelligently to the ever-changing spam threats.

> I forgot to mention... On one of my RubyForge wikis, the home page had been
> spammed so many times that the original content had rolled off the version
> history and I was unable to recover it. This is why I started checking for
> spam every day. It is a royal pain-in-the-butt and I can't wait until I no
> longer have to do this.

See Jim's patch for UseModWiki at http://onestepback.org.  He's
actually done something about Wiki spam.  Is that a record?

Gavin