Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Unfortunately, spam on the wiki seems to start

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:57:47 +0200
Gerald Combs wrote:

Ulf Lamping wrote:
Hi List!

I've just removed some content from the wiki, which seems to be spam by
a chinese poster.

If this continues, we might need to limit the people allowed to change
wiki content :-(

Someone else dropped a bunch spam on the front page less than four hours
after your cleanup.  Apparently the initial anti-spam mechanism (putting
the phrase "Please don't pee in the pool" at the bottom of every page)
didn't work.
Well, I thought only children and drunken people do this, but everyday you have to learn ...

I've enabled ACLs in the wiki, and made the front page editable only by
"Known" users.  In MoinMoin parlance, these are users who are logged in.
Yes, the front page is the first thing spammers will look at.


Hopefully, this will be enough for a while.

Regards, ULFL