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Michael P. Soulier

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Jun 11, 2006, 11:00:35 AM6/11/06
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People,

Trying to learn Turbogears, and right now it's like pulling teeth because the
kids docs all seem to be spammed into non-existence.

For example, check out the wonderful layout template recipe.

http://kid.lesscode.org/trac/wiki/LayoutTemplateRecipe

It's blank, but the page source is full of loan links to spam sites.

Is anyone looking after these?

Cheers,
Mike

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Tim Lesher

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Jun 11, 2006, 11:15:44 AM6/11/06
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On 6/11/06, Michael P. Soulier <msou...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> People,
>
> Trying to learn Turbogears, and right now it's like pulling teeth because the
> kids docs all seem to be spammed into non-existence.

If you look at the page history, you'll see that this vandalism
happened just a few hours ago.

> Is anyone looking after these?

Given that it's a Wiki, it's incumbent on all of us to do so.

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Tim Lesher

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Jun 11, 2006, 11:24:37 AM6/11/06
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On 6/11/06, Tim Lesher <tle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/06, Michael P. Soulier <msou...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > Trying to learn Turbogears, and right now it's like pulling teeth because the
> > kids docs all seem to be spammed into non-existence.
>
> If you look at the page history, you'll see that this vandalism
> happened just a few hours ago.

Actually, looking at what's done, it appears that the spammers are
getting smarter. If there hadn't been a bug in the script that wiped
out other formatted blocks on the page, it's likely that the edits
wouldn't have been noticed for a long time.

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Michael P. Soulier

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Jun 11, 2006, 11:06:00 AM6/11/06
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People,

Trying to learn Turbogears, and right now it's like pulling teeth because the
kids docs all seem to be spammed into non-existence.

For example, check out the wonderful layout template recipe.

http://kid.lesscode.org/trac/wiki/LayoutTemplateRecipe

It's blank, but the page source is full of loan links to spam sites.

Is anyone looking after these?

Cheers,

mikl

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Jun 11, 2006, 3:21:12 PM6/11/06
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Michael P. Soulier wrote:
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> It's blank, but the page source is full of loan links to spam sites.

'tis wiki spam. Perhaps we should disallow anonymous edits...

David Stanek

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Jun 13, 2006, 8:02:16 PM6/13/06
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On 6/11/06, Michael P. Soulier <msou...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:

>
> Is anyone looking after these?
>

I have taken care of most of the spam. I have written a little helper
script: http://www.traceback.org/2006/06/14/trac-spam-sucks/

Sorry that I am late responding to this thread. I don't check the TG
mailing list as much as the Kid mailing list.

David Stanek

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David Stanek

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Jun 13, 2006, 8:04:22 PM6/13/06
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On 6/11/06, mikl <mikke...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 'tis wiki spam. Perhaps we should disallow anonymous edits...
>

I don't have the proper access *yet*. But when I do I'd also like to
upgrade Trac and start using the anti-spam plugin.

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