On Wed, Jun 28, 2006, Martin Konold wrote: > the OpenPKG registration process is still a big annoyance and hindering > adoption/usage of OpenPKG a lot. > > E.g. the stupid registration feature requires email validation within a short > period of time (some minutes).
No, the registration timeout is 1 hour(!), not a few minutes. And it was set to this value last time in April when you complained the first time ;-) > This breaks much too often! Think about people > doing something else in the meantime and especially consider the very commin > smtp greylisting. One hour should be good enough even for greylisting. But ok, I've increased it now to 8 hours. But please keep in mind that both the timeout and the blocking of additional enrollments before the timeout runs out are important: the blocking exists to make sure that the enrollment process cannot be abused for spamming purposes by just creating enrollments too often within a short timeframe. OTOH, if the timeframe is too large this becomes a problem if the mail with the activation URL is lost somewhere (spam filters!) as a new enrollment is then blocked until the timeout runs out. So, sorry, we cannot get rid of the timeout and we cannot increase it too much. > An additional idiocy is that after the registration timed out the system > dissallows to start over :-(( > > https://registry.openpkg.org/ase > > "Email address already in use since 2006-06-28 20:39:26" According to the OSSP ase code this particular error really means what it says: that the Email is already in _use_, i.e., it was already successfully(!) enrolled. This error does _not_ occur if the timeout happened. The error on timeouts is "Email address already in use for enrolling since ....". This is the "blocking" case I mentioned above to prevent abuse by spammers. > This is now the third time that I tried to register and the system is still > not working reasonably. > [...] Sorry that it still is not as good as it could be. It is rather complicated to balance between abuse prevention and good user acceptance. But as I tried to explain above, the enrollment timeouts exist for good reasons. Sorry that they bothered you. But according to the database you now at least registered successfully under the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the inconveniences. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [email protected]
