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Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility
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Bill Denney |
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Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility |
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Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:44:26 -0500 (EST) |
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
I added this IP (originally, I added what I think are upenn.edu
IPs). Does it work?
The one I posed a few minutes ago is my home, upenn is where I go to
school. I will probably edit it from both locations.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:46:51AM -0500, Bill Denney wrote:
# Could it be made so that new users (who register automatically through the
# website) are allowed onto help pages that may be blanked from time to
# time (probably generally to categorize the content onto other pages)?
The point of non-automatic registration is to discourage spammers/defacers
(see http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne/wiki.pl-defaced-edited.html).
Right, but if the automatically registered account was limited to pages
that used nofollow, it is of no use to a spammer. Also, it would be
simpler to just revert a couple of pages than to look through the entire
site.
# Also, I noticed that you had NOFOLLOW setup on all the pages. With this,
# I also think that the system is diminished because if I understand
# correctly, google will not really index the site. Perhaps an addition to
# the above suggestion would be to have nofollow on the world(ish) editable
# pages all add nofollow while other pages could be indexable.
I just learned about these tags, so my knowledge may be lacking.
Imho, we should have FOLLOW and INDEX, right, at least when a robot is
accessing the site. I'd say the wiki script's code, below, does just
that, but I may be wrong.
[snip]
If I google OctaveForGNULinux CategoryInstall, the wiki's page is
pointed to, so it seems ok. Any input on this?
Sorry, it was late when I posted this I didn't check before I replied. I
guess what I was trying to get at was that if we add noindex,nofollow to
links to external sites on world editable pages, we would prevent the
benefit of a spammer, and we would get the benefit of the world being able
to edit the site.
# Finally, there should be all kinds of rate limiters possible to limit the
# number of comments per hour and per day per IP address. That by itself
# would protect from everything but bot nets.
Sure, if you're willing to set it up. I myself, unfortunately, have
very little availability for this, but it would be very welcome.
What wiki software are you using? I will look into it.
# My thoughts are: how does wikipedia handle such things. They allow bots,
# but they don't seem to have a major problem with large scale
# vandalization.
Good point, I don't know either.
I'll try to look into that one, too.
Bill
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- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Steve C. Thompson, 2006/01/13
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Bill Denney, 2006/01/13
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Steve C. Thompson, 2006/01/13
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Bill Denney, 2006/01/14
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Quentin Spencer, 2006/01/14
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Etienne Grossmann, 2006/01/14
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Bill Denney, 2006/01/14
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Etienne Grossmann, 2006/01/14
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility,
Bill Denney <=
- Re: MATLAB / Octave compatibility, Stefan van der Walt, 2006/01/14