Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Wiki spam

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:58:33 +1000
schreef Karl Goetz <address@hidden>:

> Still happening - I went to revert some pages and new spam was
> appearing as I removed old stuff. I'd suggest at this moment the
> captchas are no longer an effectively deterrent. I'm slightly bemused
> that the bots can get around captchas like that, unless they are
> being fed answers by a human.

I usually takes them a while. I believe one way they get around it is
by forwarding the questions to humans in some other context, e.g. as a
captcha to unlock a game.

> > Do any other members have suggestions for ways we can stop the spam
> > attacks?
> 
> Sam - is the moinmoin instance being kept up to date? I can't
> remember if its a custom setup or the packaged version on the system.

Yes, it's the packaged version.

> ( I'm also offering my time again if a second sysadmin would be
> useful again :)).

YES! Yes, it would. Thank you. Much obliged.