2006/8/22, Platonides platonides@gmail.com:
Some other bots use posting on their talk page to be stopped (on detecting the "You have new messages"). But this would allow to stop it to anybody...
Of course, I can check history when this message is detected, but the problem is with interwiki bots: it's impossible to stop such a bot until it returns to wiki where it received a message.
2006/8/21, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
you can easily verify a users identity by requesting them to make an edit with a predefined edit summary to their user page. Interiot is currently using that for the opt in of the edit counter.
That's good solution. Someone should: 1. make a dummy edit on special page (like 'User:Edwardspec_TalkBot/Stop') with script name as edit summary. 2. make request to CGI script which should check whether this user is trusted and stop running bot.
Of course, all bots should include 'script_name' into summary of all edits.