Re: [lojban] Helping with spam on lojban.org (cizyprijev , najrut, please read)

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Jun 7, 2012, at 13:26, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> If you're going to delete spam on lojban.org, which I *hugely*
> appreciate, the following things need to happen or I'll just have to
> go do it myself in the end anyways:
> 
> 1.  The pages need to be *deleted*, not just emptied of content
> 
> 2.  The users in question need to have their email address and
> passwords changed.

Is this a known valuable step? I've been dealing with MediaWiki-targeted spam over three wikis, and in my experience the current batch of spambots *never* reuse an account. I can see deleting/disabling/marking accounts for cleanup purposes, but I don't see that preventing logins actually helps.

> 3.  Ideally, you'd be on the wikineurotic mailing list so you can
> see *all* the spam.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>

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