Re: [livecode] after another attack

From: Dave Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:18:37 +0100

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:29:55 +0100, Julian Rohrhuber wrote
> >On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:19, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> >> this is happening to the runme wiki too:
> >> http://projects.dorkbot.org/rd04/wiki/WorkInProgress
> >>
> >> :(
> >>
> >> oddly it doesn't seem to affect most other wiki engines.
> >
> >I'm halfway through making a nice raid pair for the server that
> >toplap.org is on, I'll move to a different wiki engine as part of the
> >process. It might not fix the problem completely but it will allow it
> >to be fixed, as the CGI::Wiki::Kwiki I now favour is nicely architected
> >and a doddle to modify.
> >
> >There's also a bot that keeps subscribing itself to this list, spamming
> >it with a phishing scam, then unsubscribing itself again. Bah! We're
> >under attack!
>
> the internet gets bad weather currently, not a good time for
> picknick. Everywhere the ships close the hatches.
>
> The swiki seems still to be ok. I think one trick is to render a
> button into the page for "new page" etc. as the bots will try out
> links only.

the wiki wot my mate wrote (in a page of php) seems to be spam free so far too
on our site http://www.pawfal.org

another one to check out, according to the recent slashdot article on wikis,
is mediawiki: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ which is the basis of the
wikipedia.

dave
Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 15:18:54 GMT

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