I meant a bot targeting the Apertium wiki by Design. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 01:29 Tino Didriksen <m...@tinodidriksen.com> wrote:
> No. That is so far beyond the realm of spambot behavior that we don't need > to worry about it. No spambot is advanced enough to request registration > via a completely unrelated website and mailing list, or IRC channel. > > -- Tino Didriksen > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 05:59, Scoop Gracie <scoopgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think we need a better way to register wiki accounts. There is nothing >> stopping a spambot from sending an email to Apertium-stuff with a username >> and getting a wiki account (because we would think it was a person). >> Obviously, we would catch this if it happened rapidly, but in the lead up >> to GSoC, doing it once a day or so with different (possibly spoofed) >> addresses wouldn't look suspicious, and even after we knew about the >> attack, how would we know which future messages were bots? >> > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >
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