<font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I deleted over 225 robot spam pages today. About 200 of those were following a new page creation pattern. Recently, the usual number of deletions have been 30 to 50 such pages a day. (A year ago or so, I usually deleted about 15 spam pages a day.)</font></font></font><div>
<font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I suggest we change the wiki configuration now (before the next such attack) to require email verification before editing for new users, at least until we evaluate other prevention options.</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">With the wiki now being hosted by Gossamer Threads, who is responsible for such configuration requests or implementation?</font></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000099"><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"> --Fred</font></font></font></div>