[IMC-Tech] huge traffic influx

[Wendy Edwards]

Speaking of which, Dave G. asked if I could take more of a role in
spamfighting, but I don't really have the access at this point to
do it.

Wendy

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:59:36AM -0600, Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> We're getting a HUGE influx of requests to /newswire/update/index.php
> on ucimc.org.
> 
> My guess is that these are spammers. The requests are all coming from
> tons of different IP addresses so I can't just block them out. 
> 
> I don't have time to investigate this, can someone look into where
> these requests are coming from and how we might block them? (This
> could be a reminder about our ongoing need for captchas for posting).
> 
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