I think techniques for automatically slowing down bots would be the most valuable place to concentrate our efforts.
This sounds promising to me too. What's the fastest rate of saving that a legitimate user is likely to
use?
What's the fastest rate of saving that we can expect to keep up with if used by a bot? I'm going make a 0th approximation of 1 minute for
each.
Too slow? too fast?
I often prepare a set of inter-related articles and upload them using multiple browser tabs, saving them as fast as I can click the button. There's no reason I couldn't wait between saves, but I don't want to....
-- Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com