I got the impression that Developer's were called such b/c they worked on software development? Maybe we should have a 3 category for Super-users?

-- Michael Becker

-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ehrenberg Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6.18 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] We need a way to deal with AOL vandals THIS year

--- Tony Wilson list@redhill.net.au wrote:

Right at this moment, Michael is logged in as User:Fuck. He has cottoned on to two key weaknesses in our security setup.

Either one on its own is a problem, but both together is a gaping hole:

(a) There is no way to block a logged-in user if you can't guess his IP address.

Tony (Tannin)

I thought developers could block logged in users, just not ordinary sysops. I'd like to change that, though. I think there shouldn't be a distinction between sysop and developer. Or maybe people become developers after one month of sysophood. --LittleDan

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