[Imc-web] Re: [IMC-Tech] Shutting Down Comments or the Site Until New Site is Live

[Mike Lehman]

Just to follow-up on my original proposal in this thread, I think we 
need to go ahead and shut things down now, unless we can get better 
access to to administer the website.

I was able to really get caught up only twice over the weekend with 
deleting adcrap. Today I haven't yet been able to. The website has been 
mostly inaccessible to me since Friday, despite multiple browsers on 
multiple computers from multiple locations. Somehow, someway, the adcrap 
always gets through, though.

I thus propose these four things, in whatever order will most 
expeditiously work:

1. Put the website on moderated status, if we think that will stop the 
adcrap, but we may have to shut it off completely and go to read-only 
status to avoid moderation requests being generated if it keeps coming.

2. Clean up whatever adcrap is on the site.

3. Post an article to the Local Newswire only letting people know what's up.

4. Work as quickly as possible to get newucimc.org up.

Mike Lehman

dan blah wrote:
> 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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