[GRASS-dev] impending wiki spam bombing

[Markus Neteler]

HamishB wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I notice over the last day or two a high number of seemingly randomly
> generated new user accounts on our wiki site. We can ban these fake
> users as they come and hope we don't hit anyone real, but at 10/day
> it becomes an ugly chore, time sink, and demotivator. Up til now we've
> been getting a few suspect accounts at the rate of around 1/week but no
> automated spam.
> 
> We are up to 908 users registered, most appear to be spambot accounts,
> but only 41 have been manually blocked.
> 

I have now deleted around 400 suspicious users (like "WkkYbe", "FwfNv7" etc)
which were registered without email address. :-)

Thanks to SQL no big deal once you know what you are looking for.

Markus
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