Re: http://civicaccess.ca/wiki/ must be closed or otherwise require verified passwords.

Posted by Robin Millette on Dec 11, 2006; 5:46pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/http-civicaccess-ca-wiki-must-be-closed-or-otherwise-require-verified-passwords-tp770p774.html

On 12/11/06, Russell McOrmond <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>    I just went to look something up, and was confronted with a series of
> "[WWW] pussy sucking lesbos | [WWW] daughter fucking friend |" links
> from a spammer.
>
>     WIKI's can't be left open.  I've been going around recent months
> closing down WIKI's that I host that don't have strong password
> protection around them.  I don't even allow people to log in and post
> comments immediately on my Drupal sites as there is automation for
> creating new accounts (Including the whole email verification stuff) to
> post SPAM.

I've hosted a bunch of wikis too, all open and never had a real
problem with it. Before closing the door on anonymous edits, I'm sure
we can come up with a few options.