Cool, will give that a try, and let you know how it goes... Thanks Ryan.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Lee [mailto:ryanlee_at_w3.org]
> Sent: 22 November 2005 13:23
> To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Public wiki?
>
> Tansley, Robert wrote:
> > Ryan, how do the 'blacklist' pages work? What we did for the DSpace
> > Wiki (which uses the same s/w and runs on the same machine)
> is create a
> > 'registered user' page, and only users whose name are on
> this page can
> > edit anything. So anyone can sign up, but we have to
> manually add them
> > to that page before they can edit anything. I viewed this as a last
> > resort, but necessary because our Wiki was getting trashed
> by some sort
> > of bot thing several times a day. If the blacklist thing offers an
> > alternative I'd love to try it out.
> >
> > (I'm probably missing the bleedin' obvious, feel free to
> say 'RTFM' if
> > appropriate)
> >
> > Rob
>
> Rob,
>
> See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamGlobalSolution
>
> Links that go to any of those sites listed on a community
> blacklist or a
> local blacklist will prevent changes from being saved to the wiki.
>
> We have our BadContent mirror and LocalBadContent protected
> from edits
> via HTTP Auth.
>
> --
> Ryan Lee ryanlee_at_w3.org
> W3C Research Engineer +1.617.253.5327
> http://simile.mit.edu/
>
Received on Tue Nov 22 2005 - 22:21:15 EST