[IGSTK-Developers] Anti Link Spammer

[Patrick Cheng]

Sounds cool.

You can put me as correspondence if you want.
cheng at isis.georgetown.edu

Thank you,

Patrick

Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> The way it works is, all users are in blacklisted at first. When they 
> try to create an external link, the e-mail is sent to admins with the 
> link. The Admins can now add the user to the white list. Once on white 
> list, the user can add as many links as she wants.
> 
> This seems inconvenient, but in practice it works great.
> 
> For more information check:
> 
> http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Service:Main#Spam_protection
> 
>       Andy
> 
> Patrick Cheng wrote:
> 
>> Thank you guys :)
>>
>> One question to Andy, I used NAMIC Wiki before, it reject all the 
>> external link. It's like month ago. But I don't know how it behaves now.
>>
>> This might be a little bit inconvenient for our developers. Does this 
>> anti  spam package still reject all external links?
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> Andy Cedilnik wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I will update IGSTK wiki to my-special-hacked-anti-spam-wiki that 
>>> makes sure people do not do bad things. This is the one we use on 
>>> public.kitware.com for CMake/VTK/ITK/ParaView, and for NA-MIC.org/Wiki.
>>>
>>>       Andy
>>>
>>> Stephen R. Aylward wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lock the first few pages.
>>>>
>>>> You can limit modification to admins...
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Cheng wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> Our IGSTK wiki got spammed from time to time by those link 
>>>>> spammers, it's especially severe these two days.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some times they just insert hidden links, some times they even 
>>>>> substitute our main page. This is really annoying.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am fixing it right now by hand. Anyone has better solution to 
>>>>> this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Patrick
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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