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> I dunno. I was astonished that they came back a second time after we'd
> once thrown them off and cleaned up the mess; you'd think they'd realize
> that that would just happen again. I think it may have been an
> intentional attack on the PG project as such, not just drive-by spamming.
> (If so, and if the goal was to complicate our lives, they succeeded.)
I doubt PG was targeted: MediaWiki was. It's a popular and easy spam vector
these days, and reminds me of Windows in the old days: you can setup a
brand new wiki and be guaranteed a spammer before you even start advertising
your site. And once you are on a list, expect to never be able to fully open
your wiki again.
The captcha war is absolutely being won by the spammers at the moment, so
I think our current solution is probably the best tradeoff we can get.
Although it would be nice to be able to point people the #postgresql
channel for editor rights too.
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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