[Wikipedia-l] vandalism spree

Fri Nov 22 03:07:17 UTC 2002

>>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....

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 Sean Barrett
 sean at epoptic.com