--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Philip Pemberton <ygroups@...> wrote:
Steve Greenfield
>And if a spammer erases stuff to add their spam, how will those users restore the lost info?
> Steve wrote:
> > Maybe a white-list of editors should be set up.
>
> My first idea was to tie it into the members list on Yahoo, but there isn't an
> easy way to tie the two together. The only way I could think of doing it would
> be to manually check each new user against Yahoo, which seems like a lot of work.
>
> > As moderator of a lot of Yahoogroups, I'm fully aware of how willing
> > spammers are to register to post their spam. Not allowing anonymous edits
> > will only stop the most casual of vandals.
>
> While I have no problem -- in principle -- of granting Wiki admin access to
> moderators/admins on the mailing list, most of the stuff you get access to as
> a Wiki admin is internal configuration data and settings. The whole "anyone
> can edit" concept of a wiki means that removing spam is something any user can
> do (via the edit option).
Steve Greenfield