The Linux iSCSI project keeps itsdocumentation in a world-editable wiki. I should really say kept,because it's hard to find much usable documentation in the wiki at themoment; most of the pages are overgrown with wiki spam. Some pages havehad a thousand edits in two days , all of them spam. All of this makesthe project's wiki an unfortunately excellent illustration of why mostopen wikis are doomed.

The problem is that there are just more spammers out there automatingtheir attacks than most

Recently a co-worker pointed out that the downside to giving machines distinctive hostnames is that users become attachedto them, and when you introduce newer, better machines the users don'tmigrate to them. Once I thought about it, this made sense; after all,by naming things we make them distinct, and thus no longer quite sogeneric and equivalent.

(At this point I am tempted to think thoughts about brand loyaltyand the distinctiveness of brand logos.)

One contributing factor is that with many generic