[WikiEN-l] We need a way to deal with AOL vandals THIS year

[Michael Becker]

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



--- Tony Wilson <list at 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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