Why would that be the case? Users are merely a row in a table in a database, as far as the software is concerned, and databases are designed to handle data...
I'm not sure what you think could be exploited.
Rob Church
On 12/10/05, Jani H. Lahtinen jani.h.lahtinen@nokia.com wrote:
ext Rob Church wrote:
The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell out of the software.
MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.
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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.
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