[COLUG] Wiki in colug space -- was untitled Re: colug]

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jim wrote:

> Stephen Potter wrote:
>
>> I just find online collaboration systems to be so very useful.

> Only Russ can answer that.

'Ready Fire Aim' -- I think a wiki is the wrong tool for many 
things, and for many reasons; a presentation on collaboration 
tools for COLUG would be welcomed -- but keeping to the 
technical side  ;)

I do not understand the need for the colug to reinvent 
provisioning this wheel, nor to expose its stable environment 
to the ongoing exploits which wiki's seem to produce weekly. 
Johnny Hughes (centos builder) colo box' web content was 
cracked over the weekend by a Syrian, seemingly, through the 
wiki he ran.  The twiki security mailing list has weekly 
exploits; the vendor-sec list shows more; and vuln-dev lots 
and lots.  I find the (obvious) risk exposure not worth the 
(unseen to me) reward.

If someone wants to run one _on their hardware and in their IP 
space_, I will point 'wiki.colug.net' accordingly; when it 
gets compromised, I will remove the DNS entry.

- R