Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Philip Pemberton <ygroups@...> wrote:
>
> 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).

And if a spammer erases stuff to add their spam, how will those users restore the lost info?

Steve Greenfield