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News :: Miscellaneous |
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UCIMC Newswire Special Notice |
Current rating: 0 |
by IMC Tech Team
(No verified email address) |
02 Aug 2002
Modified: 12:21:34 AM |
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Due to spamming/flooding/hacking attacks on this site, we must announce this special circumstance with our Newswire. |
While we resolve certain technical issues, we have decided to place the UCIMC Newswire on autohide. This is unfortunate, but due to attacks on the website, we are forced to invoke this emergency measure to insure continued service of the Newswire.
_Please continue to post!_
We will unhide all legitimate posts ASAP. It may, however, be a few minutes, during the day, to a few hours, during late nights, before either posts of articles or comments to articles appear.
PLEASE BE PATIENT!
DO NOT POST MULTIPLE COPIES OF ARTICLES AS THIS IS AN INDICATION OF HACKING/SPAMMING/FLOODING BEHAVIOR WHICH WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Thank you for working with us on this problem. We wish there was some other way to maintain a usable Newswire at this time and we will restore full service ASAP.
Please remember that this Sunday's Steering group meeting at noon will have a full discussion of this issue so that you can express your concerns about these circumstnces brought on by those whose only goal is to make IndyMedia difficult to use.
Success attracts its detractors. Consider this a sign of the effectiveness and impact that IMC is having on those who oppose independent media. |
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More Info |
by ML
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
02 Aug 2002
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Readers are welcome to check out the admin page, available at:
http://www.ucimc.org/display.php3?group=webcast&led=y&sort=&rate=none&filter=none&first=0&edit_comments=y
You will note the extent of the problems that have been encountered trying to keep our Newswire up, unflooded by hackers/spammers.
If you have not looked at the admin page before, you might want to check out these linked articles of the spammer who is attacking us. One of these has been left on the Newswire for easy access, along with it's massive number of linked posts which attempted to flood our Newswire, happily checked by alert Technicians:
http://www.ucimc.org/front.php3?article_id=6999&group=webcast
It should also be noted that this was only a portion of the numerous reposts of the same or nearly the same article.
There are numerous other hidden articles that can be viewed on the admin page if you want to know more.
Please note that, while the articles hidden tend to portray a certain point of view on the Middle East conflicts, politics is essentially irrlevant to the spammer attacking us. He has also attacked the Jerusalem IMC in similar ways, but using the opposite political tack. His sole aim is the disruption of IMC services and to stir up pointless arguments by engaging in trolling behavior.
_We respectfully request that readers not feed the troll._
He has been banned here at UCIMC for repeated occurances of such behavior. This sort of conduct, in violation of UCIMC policies, will not be tolerated nor will it be allowed to shut down our Newswire. |
