Spam & Site Attacks

Sorry for the massive spam attacks on this site. The CAPTCHA filter does not yet really work. It's a plague. I wonder what this sort of violence is supposed to be good for in the first place. The postings do not even make any sense.

Also, we experienced a DDOS attack already, after only a few days online. Some bot net, obviously originating from China, with thousands of computers requested a million or so pages, crashing the database server. Heck, what a nonsense.

All software is up to the latest update, security measures, firewalls, intrusion detection, you name it. A collective experience of over 30 years of computing behind the scenes, to no avail. It's a meaningless war.

Ok, lamented enough. I just want to let you know that we are sorry in case you received lots of Wiki update notifications due to the spam. We are working on it.