Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wiki anti-spam changes
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 21:29:05 +0000 (+0000), B STEVENS wrote:
> this may be a naive question but why would anyone attack a linux
> user group wiki? what form did these attacks take?


Probably random attacks.

Have a look at this:
http://hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=history&id=LinuxHints/SerialConsole

if you click on "revision 13" you'll see what happens.

To see how many attacks we've had recently (we've had such outbreaks
before):
http://hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RecentChanges

Adrian
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