[Mediawiki-l] Re: Never delete users !

[Jani H. Lahtinen]

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.
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>MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.
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>Rob Church
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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.