[Wikipedia-l] Re: I like BBS:es

Thu May 8 11:06:37 UTC 2003

Hunter Peress wrote:
> there has even been a thread about granting everyone on wikipedia
> shell access. Were this idea fact by this point, I would have had a
> shell account 7 months ago.

Wow, I must have missed that thread, but basically I don't think that
would be a good idea.  I don't mind us being pretty open with shell
accounts for anyone who needs them, developers, but "internal"
security, security for users from the command line, is something I'd
rather not worry about too much.

--Jimbo