Re: [dita-fa-edboard] bogus postings on dita.xml.org...

[Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>]

Well, that's an interesting way to welcome the New Year!

Short of reviewing every user ... I wonder whether it's possible to 
introduce a two-step registration process. The user registers an e-mail 
address and then must confirm from that e-mail address.

To save on manual labor reviewing the logs ... I wonder whether there's a 
log-scanning service that can flag suspicious-looking e-mail addresses.

Bruce

At 07:07 PM 12/30/2006, Scott Prentice wrote:
>Hi...
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>I noticed a large number of bogus postings on the site and was deleting 
>them along with blocking the usernames that posted them (if you delete the 
>user before removing the pages they posted, it appears that you can run 
>into trouble). This is all as you'd expect these days, but I ran into a 
>user named "admin" (who actually has full admin privileges) who posted an 
>item titled .. "tiny nude models" .. I've deleted the posting, but can't 
>(obviously) delete the user. Does this mean that someone has hacked in as 
>"admin"? Perhaps we should change the password for the user "admin"?
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>Should we delete the users that post garbage .. or just block them? Either 
>way, they can just register again.
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>Also .. if you go to the admin page .. http://dita.xml.org/admin .. and 
>filter on all messages, you'll see a large number of PHP errors .. this 
>doesn't seem right .. these errors are being generated many times per second.
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>...scott
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