Wow. I am getting clobbered, or was. I shut down the new account system
that was open to the public and set it to be by e-mail confirmation,
then disabled e-mail for a while.. I then used the
deletUnusedAccounts.php a couple of times and it deleted 17860 of the
spammers. But they are a persistant lot and some of them actually did
manage to get pages up and running, actually hundreds or maybe thousands
of them. The challenge is "How do I get rid of them?", & doing it one at
a time is useless. How to keep them at bay. I would appreciate any tips
regarding this. expecially actual mediawiki settings that get rid of
them. I need to know if there is any way to 'delete' them using a list
of the user:names
seems there should be a simple way to do this, but I've had no luck so
far.
Thanks!
John