[aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism

[Andrew Rich]

It gets so bad that I had a guest book that spammers were using for
advertising !


-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Tapio Sokura
Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 7:41 AM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism


Tom Russo wrote:
> The APRS wiki at http://info.aprs.net/ appears to have been the victim of
> some hit-and-run script vandalism on 19 April 2007.

Just about any wiki that allows editing without login and/or editing
with a login that doesn't have to be pre-approved by the administrators,
will sooner or later be vandalized. It's just a matter of those
vandalbots finding the wiki. And usually they come back again later,
with an ever-decreasing interval. After a while, the wiki might be in
constant motion due to vandalbots. After you fix/revert one page, you
notice that two other pages have been vandalized while you were
reverting the previous page.. it's a neverending swamp, unfortunately.

   Tapio

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