[ZWeb] Wiki spammer problem needs to be addressed ;(

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:06:00AM -0500, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> An idea (brainstorming here) would be to change the membership 
> policy to require that members be 'sponsored' or approved by a 
> current member. In the short term, we might also want to create 
> a special role for editing wiki pages and remove that right from 
> 'Member' until the membership policy change is in place. That 
> might help prevent more wiki pages from being defaced in the 
> short term while inconveniencing the smallest number of people
> (who could ask to be granted the wiki editing right in the 
> interim).

+1
 
> The pages currently defaced can be recovered using history - 

we could if the history feature wasn't so buggy :-(


http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg/309
http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg/365

the latter just entered by me while attempting to
look at the spammed pages Brian found.

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com