[IGSTK-Developers] Anti Link Spammer

[Andy Cedilnik]

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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Andy Cedilnik
Kitware Inc.