[IMC-Tech] Shutting Down Comments or the Site Until New Site is Live

[dan blah]

i would like to move to the new.ucimc.org site asap.  i would really
like to be using the new site before the first of the month if at all
possible.

On 9/17/06, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> OK, I'm pretty confused about things in general these days after the
> trauma of last week's prelim.
> ;>)
>
> I would say to go ahead an put the imc-web list on moderate, as long as
> you're still getting daily notices to check it for anything that might
> happen to come in that is legit. I know the email lists are pretty much
> a mess these days, too. The blacklists are just not keeping up, even
> though I've been skimming new additions as I find them and sending them
> to Dan to add into them.
>
> My concern on the website is that we've been getting so much adcrap
> there that it has been hard to get into the site to delete it. It may
> actually be the combination of that and the continued massive spamming
> of imsahp is just slowing access down for everything at the IMC. In the
> case of the website, once it gets so that we can no longer effectively
> admin it, we are going to have to pull the plug, as the usual crowd will
> next be dancing around claiming our "corporate" lifestyle now includes
> hosting ads. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but it -- both the website
> and the email spam -- has gotten rather unmanageable.
> Mike Lehman
>
> Wendy Edwards wrote:
> > No, actually I meant putting the mailing list "imc-web" on
> > moderated status - we were getting a lot of spam.
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:05:52AM -0500, Mike Lehman wrote:
> >
> >> Wendy asked a week or so about putting the website on moderated status.
> >> I agreed then it might be a good idea. Since then, things have only
> >> gotten worse. While correlation is not necessarily cuasation, it should
> >> be noted that the problem seems to go worse whenever the 0mostly)
> >> Anonymous Vultures of the IMC Network starts circling. I've had my
> >> suspicions about such a linkage for a long time, but proof is really
> >> largely irrelevant at this point.
> >>
> >> Given that it has become impossible to consistently get access to the
> >> site because it is overloaded with incoming spam posts in order to keep
> >> the spam cleaned up, I suggest that it is time to turn on moderation
> >> until the new site is up. The spam is apparently at the point where it
> >> overloads the server's ability to allow access from us to purge it. If
> >> we can't simply shut down comments, then I suggest that we put the whole
> >> site on moderation. I'm willing to write and post the notice if someone
> >> else can take care of the technical end of things.
> >> Mike Lehman
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Daniel