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Brian Behlendorf writes: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > > > >> In the end, the majority of the 99% must adjust to the 1% of idiots. > > > > Hmmm.... At a 2 magnitude superiority in manpower, the majority is unable to > > keep them in check, and weed them out? Is that a matter of lack of tools, or > > doesn't the majority care? > > You can weed them out... but they can come back too, under a different > name. The Apache wiki defacement was done by spammers and by one person > who just wanted to see the goatse picture... but all anonymous save for an > IP address. Defacement and repair is tolerable when we're talking about > text content, whether it's our documentation or Wikipedia; but it's not > tolerable when we're talking about code, despite the peer review that > commits (usually) get. As a datapoint -- we (SpamAssassin) have seen no defacements *at all* since enforcing user accounts on our Wiki as a requirement to edit pages. A small stumbling block, and an email address requirement, seems to go a long way to avoid the bad 1%. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBbWfuMJF5cimLx9ARAnmRAJwKUQ9XKHH+LRiZ5NkGUhfrM3oZMQCgvF3C 6z9GGz7QyBk9ckCuSujYVmg= =OJK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]