[Journal] Journal user registration disabled on journal.osgeo.org

[Christian Willmes]

Hello,

I disabled the User registration because of the spam bot problem 
mentioned in the forwarded mail.

Users with Role Journal Manager or Site Admin can register new Users on 
request.

Should the public user registration stay disabled?

If we let the user registration closed, we should provide an 
explanation, on how to get an account for participating in the journal. 
We could for example provide this lists address as point of contact for 
potential new contributors.

I did not yet found a soloution (or a pattern) for how we delete all the 
spam accounts. If anyone has a good Idea how to do this, input is 
welcome. Otherwise we need to delete the accounts manually, which is a 
lot of work...

Regards,
Christian

On 14.06.2015 21:44, Christian Willmes wrote:
> Hi Barend,
>
> I am quite sure I disabled the registration on the journals OJS
> instance, since we discovered that spam user registration problem
> already when we prepared the instance for the 2013 FOSS4G publications.
> Someone must have re-enabled that, or we were indeed hacked?
>
> I will have a look into disabeling the registration again tomorrow
> afternoon/evening when I have some spare time in between. If there are
> objections to that, please say so...
>
> According the TGIS publication, about three weeks ago I got an
> additional review of my paper with (very good) comments from 3 anonymous
> reviewers, that I and my co-authors worked into the paper. We plan to
> submit the revised version tomorrow or at latest on Tuesday (the
> deadline is until mid July though).
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
> On 14.06.2015 12:33, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> You might have seen already the announcement below I sent on various
>> channels on the FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track publication in the OSGEO
>> Journal.
>>
>> There were only five papers left (of the seven selected two have
>> chosen to
>> publish elsewhere). Thus once I finally had al materials, I could quite
>> quickly do the actual editing and publishing.
>>
>> In doing so, I found that he OJS system has had a flood of spam/robot
>> registrations: I found this when trying to send all users an announcement
>> and having the system trying to send mail to 40169 users. Not sure who
>> (if
>> anybody) is at them moment (feeling) responsible for the Journal system,
>> but it needs some tender love and care...
>>
>> Yours,
>> Barend
>>
>> FYI: there were three AT papers selected for the Transactions in GIS
>> journal, I asked their chief editor what the status of those is, but
>> received no answer as of yet.
>>
>> ==========
>>
>> Volume 14 of the OSGeo Journal [1] has just been published. This issue
>> comprises five research papers selected from the submissions to the
>> Academic Track of FOSS4G 2014, which took place in Portland (Oregon,USA),
>> from 8 to 13 September 2014.
>>
>> [1] - https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal/issue/viewIssue/35/6
>>