On 12/5/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/12/05, Mischa Peters
<mischa2023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I understand the open editing thing. But I
don't want to have people
register with bogus accounts. As long as their email address exist I
don't mind what they type.
How on earth does "not having an e-mail address" equate to "bogus
account" - or rather, how does "having an e-mail address" equate to
"completely trusted account"? This is exactly the kind of flawed
reasoning that gets trotted out time and time again on this subject,
and why I think there is a serious message behind the very funny
parody on meta [1].
Is there any check in mediawiki to determine whether or not the email
address you give it is actually an email address of yours? I think
this is what was meant by "bogus accounts", someone who put
"whatever(a)example.com" or something like that.
By all means argue that the additional speed-bump
provided by forcing
e-mail verification, and the resulting overall decline in edits and
editors - both good and bad - will be on average beneficial for your
particular use of MediaWiki. But do not be so foolish as to claim that
the ability and willingness to go through that process will in any way
guarantee the character and intention of a particular user.
Look at
mailinator.com, look at
bugmenot.com, and you'll realise that
people who *want* to by-pass the "verification" will be able to do so
perfectly easily thank you very much.
-=Refs=-
[1]:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_gays_should_not_be_allowed_to_ediā¦
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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]