John Hinsley wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 6:50 pm, Michael Rueger wrote:
> > John Hinsley wrote:
> > > Has Mark received any response yet? If the domain isn't responding, I'd
> > > be inclined to call in the Fibies (is it federal?) and block them anyway.
> > > The
> >
> //snip//
> >
> > I'm all for setting a simple password, these attacks will not go away
> > and we can consider ourselves lucky that these aren't real attacks (yet).
> 
> Can I suggest something a little different?
> 
> As an interim measure we block that domain (that is, someone at Gatech asks
> the roots to block it). This should stop Snoodman for the time being and may
> irritate the domain into doing something.
> 
> Long term, we look at better controls for the Swiki. I'd suggest that only the
> administrator and the original author be allowed to lock pages.

Those both sound like good ideas to me.

I'm sending this to swiki-bugs at cc.gatech.edu as well, which is the official admin address for the Swiki, I believe.

- Doug Way
  Detroit, MI



David Brown wrote:
> 
> The last person that editted it was from socp-b.scsnet.com -- looks like we need
> to block that domain once and for all.  I just cleaned up a bunch of stuff he
> did on the front page and the "future" page, mainly the deletion of links and such.
> 
> Since it looks like sending nasty emails isn't going to work, I vote for
> blocking the bastard.
> 
> Quoting Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com:
> 
> > Does anyone know who locked the News Page on
> > the squeak swiki?
> > (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1560)
> >
> > I've created this page and maintain it since June 2000!