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

[Eli Adam]

Hi Christian,

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Christian Willmes
<c.willmes at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I disabled the User registration because of the spam bot problem mentioned
> in the forwarded mail.

Thanks for doing this and helping get the OJS system back on track.

>
> Users with Role Journal Manager or Site Admin can register new Users on
> request.
>
> Should the public user registration stay disabled?

I think so.  We are not overwhelmed by new contributors, :).

>
> 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.

Yes, that is a good idea.

>
> 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...

Not sure what to do here.

Best regards, Eli


>
> 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
>>>
>