[Moin-devel] Horror Story: Calling Home

[Dmytri Kleiner]

Hello everybody, just wanted to share with you all my horror story
today.

The Wiki that installed was hanging on save changes. Weird. it was
working yesterday.

After, exhaustive, time consuming test and investigations, we were
scracthing our heads wondering what the heck was going on. Very
frustrating.

Then, finaly, a break through!

We discovered that the Wikis anti "link spam" module was hanging
attempting to connect to the moinmaster server.

Horror! The Wiki is calling home! What is this? Spyware? This was very
embarassing for me, since I'm the moin booster around here.

Please, please, please, make sure that any outbound request from the
Wiki engine default to **OFF**. This is just polite.

Thanks.

Congrats on the new release by the way.

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Dmytri Kleiner
dk at trick.ca