[Mediawiki-l] Delete passive users ?

Wed Oct 12 08:55:57 UTC 2005

Or simply a user configurable limit of being able to only create 1 user
per ip per hour.

That would stop excessive user creation into the hundreds from an IP.

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Sent: 12 October 2005 09:24
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Delete passive users ?

 Jani : Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a
bot that generates and register users. After some trillions of random
users added the wiki is on its knees.
GP : From Rob answer I understood that the problem is for links that are
created in the system when a user is active.
If a bot "just" adds trillions of users I guess he's got no time for
creating pages.
So these passive users could be erased ???????
The need is of an alarm indicator of "over registration of users".

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