Yeah, that is a thought. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 04:31 Tino Didriksen <m...@tinodidriksen.com> wrote:
> 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? >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff >
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