My point is that no bot can do that. It would require a human to register the account for the bot, in which case there's nothing we can do anyway. So no, there's no reason to further complicate account registration.
If anything, I would like to open up registrations more, so that admins don't have to get involved at first. -- Tino Didriksen On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 12:18, Scoop Gracie <scoopgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >>> >>
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