Re: link to jedmodes at jed homepage

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I'm wondering what you mean by "hit by spammers".  I assume you do
>not mean email spam, since it's a Web site.  Could you describe
>the kinds of attacks and whether there is anything that a Wiki or
>a CMS (content management system) site (for example one built on
>Plone) could do to protect itself.  Or is it that once the
>malicious have found your site, there is no alternative to closing
>it down?

Perhaps "spammer" is the wrong term.  In any case, pages were being
modified through the addition of links to other sites.  The purpose of
such links is not to attact anyone viewing the wiki to the specified
page, rather the idea is to increase the google score of the page.

Removing such links became too time-consuming so I shut it down.
Perhaps someday I will install another wiki that simply rejects edits
containing links to external sites.

--John

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