[SAC] more spammer accounts

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Wed May 11 13:54:00 PDT 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott at mgras.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:20:49PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> BTW, there are still 20175 user accounts on OSGeo LDAP and I'd guess
> that approx. 95 % are dummy/spam accounts.  By removing accouns ins
> small chunks of 5 to 20 I doubt that we'll be able to silence this
> spamming within a reasonable time frame.
>
> Instead I'd recommend to announce setting random passwords onto *all*
> OSGeo LDAP accounts - except those whose owners explicitly ask for an
> exception.  And those who don't within 9 months will get removed
> entirely.


Yes please.
Because the current method will drive me away from SAC soon while I am
only able to do a fraction of what you guys do at time!

I'm sure that the real users will understand this counter measure.

It does not make sense to continue with the polluted LDAP DB like this.

cheers
Markus


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