Hi David, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > What checks do you suggest the trac account managers do? That is quite a > critical point, as otherwise it would be very easy to spam if no checks were > made.
It would be even easier to spam using some automated registration system like the previous system we had until recently, since that is trivially broken. I have been dealing most days with lots of spam accounts in recent months due to the previous automated+captcha system. The new system is meant to slow down the amount of spam I or anyone has to deal with. Hopefully it would get spam down to less than 1 a day. I want to slow down the rate at which spam accounts could be created. Having a human account manager is deterrent enough to discourage some spammers. > It would seem wise to me that the email is initially at least the same one > as they have used to post to sage-devel or sage-support. If they have never > posted there, I don't feel they need a trac account. You could raise the same issues regarding the previous automated+captcha system. If someone hasn't ever posted to sage-support or sage-devel, why should they be able to setup their own account using an automated registration system and within minutes be able to post to trac? My primary motivation in creating sage-trac-account is that I don't want to handle spam accounts every day, which is pretty much the case with the previous automated+captcha system. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
