Re: Wiki Abuse

> Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts?

Yes, I found out that we can. It's 129 users total.
Amended plan: create a page to explain the account policy; post to
squid-users; preserve those 129, the editors, the admins, and whoever
answers from squid-users; remove everyone else with no other warning.

Eliezer, Alex; you are right that it'd be nice to warn each individual
user personally, but:
- it's 28k of them. Out of those, I estimate 8k to be real (and the
estimate is VERY generous), at least 20k are drive-by spam attempts
- many of the users have probably fake or spoofed email addresses
(remember, no address verification is done), so the mail would be
unexpected to them, and even if only 10% answered, it's an excessive
amount of work.
- recreating an user account is a trivial matter (even though it now
requires an admin's intervention)

I will keep the old user accounts around in case they are needed.

Does the plan fly with you guys?

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    /kinkie