[19:16] <pleia2> need to disable memberships to ~ubuntu-california temporarily, spammers are using it as a back door for spamming wiki.ubuntu.com
[19:16] <pleia2> 12:13:54 < pleia2> popey: I think we should disable the approved locos as members of the pad
[19:16] <pleia2> 12:14:11 < pleia2> making our team closed makes me very uncomfortable (it's unwelcoming, we don't have criteria for inclusion, etc
[19:24] <pleia2> ianorlyn, nhaines - so be aware, and don't auto-approve new members :)
[19:27] <MarkDude> pleia2: you have to do what you have to do. The group needs to be protected, and you are doing so :)
[19:28] <MarkDude> Hopefully a solution comes to light, but erring on the side of saving folks hassles is the right way to go, IMO
[19:29] <pleia2> the only thing we use the team for is collaborating on the team flyers and cd sleeves, so I'm not too worried that people are being disrupted by a temporary pause in membership :)
[19:32] <MarkDude> Yep, but your inner Penguin defaults to open, the Force is strong with this one :D
[19:33] <pleia2> indeed, we'll re-open as soon as possible :)
[21:28] <nhaines> pleia2: the recent uptick in join requests to ~locoteams-verified makes more sense now.  Although I'm pretty sure most of them are legitimately invalid requests.
[21:32] <nhaines> As far as ~ubuntu-california,  very prominently on record that ~ubuntu-california should be moderated or delgated and basically no one should be a member and we shouldn't use it for anything except translations and code hosting, neither of which apply to us.  :)
[21:34] <lynorian> wow so much email from like a rash of users wanting to join of people I have never seen before
[21:34] <lynorian> was that spam?
[21:36] <nhaines> Yes.  They're using it to get edit rights on wiki.ubuntu.com for spamming purposes.
[21:37] <nhaines> But not anymore!  (Thanks, pleia2).
[21:37] <nhaines> To repeat what I said just 6 minutes ago:
[21:37] <nhaines> pleia2: the recent uptick in join requests to ~locoteams-verified makes more sense now.  Although I'm pretty sure most of them are legitimately invalid requests.
[21:37] <nhaines> As far as ~ubuntu-california,  very prominently on record that ~ubuntu-california should be moderated or delgated and basically no one should be a member and we shouldn't use it for anything except translations and code hosting, neither of which apply to us.  :)
[21:38] <nhaines> (Sorry for the double ping, Lyz.)
[21:45] <lynorian> ok now this makes so much more sense
[21:51] <nhaines> Yup, and I got all those emails twice because they tried to join ~locoteams-verified too.