[PLUG] The PLUG Wiki

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> We have a choice to make for the wiki, concerning secure write access
> versus frequent deletion of wikispam. We can make write access to the
> wiki controlled by an Apache password or some other means, so that only
> "approved" people can write to it. That violates the spirit of wiki,
> though. Or we can open it up to anyone who wishes to sign up, and
> actively clean out the wikispam that inevitably appears. That will
> involve many of us spending actual clock time checking "recent changes"
> and reverting spammed pages, and turning off user accounts that get abused
> for spam.

Keith,

   Could access be limited to valid subscribers of the mail list? Would that
accomplish both goals (let all PLUGgers write on it and control spam) and
make access control easy since the wiki list can be regularly updated from
the mail list.

Rich

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