From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-05-10T20:09:07+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygarden homepage hacks

On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:55:44 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
>>Sascha Doerdelmann wrote:
>>I remember the Docbook wiki got erased completely by an evil bot, this
>>was a big loss.
>>
>>http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/
>>
>>Shouldn't we do something to prevent situations like that?
>>
>>
>>
>>BTW:  It would be really nice if one could create one central Ruby account,
>>which then would work with: rubyforge, rubygarden, rcrchive, raa, rubynews.
>>Is such unification realistic ?
> 
> I agree. Registering that often is painful. Unfortunately centralization
> does not scale. There must be other ways to fight bots. I think that they
> are not so good at OCR so far (that way I don't have to "invent" a new
> password all the time, that I keep forgetting anyway).
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Jean-Hugues
> 

That is a nice idea, to have an autogenerated image, containing
a password to be used for making changes (and some random noise 
to confuse the bot). 
And maybe it would help prevent disaster to limit the amount of 
text that can be deleted at a time.

A revision history (a la CVS) to quickly revert changes may help
to.  Don't they have this already?

Kristof