From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tt3qi-0000t7-AC; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:10:18 +0100 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r09Lt1dk021394 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:55:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from msp-dhcp16.wrs.com (172.25.34.16) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.318.4; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:55:01 -0800 Message-ID: <50EDE734.8060703@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:55:00 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: In-Reply-To: Cc: layer , Patches Subject: Re: locking down patchwork and wiki registrations X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:10:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/9/13 9:59 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > Hi > > We receive tonne of spam in form of registrations everyday and some of > bots have become smarted that they even activate their > profiles. It has to be manually deleted and its tedious. I would > therefore like to remove the 'register' link from pw front page > that will stop the spam as I have already experimented with it a bit. > > Same is also true for wiki. We should make the registration process to > be manual since that will put some end to registration spam. > > I am open to other ideas to stop spam without locking registrations. > > The registrations will still happen but should be done manually. I don't have any problem w/ manual registration, but I do have a concern. Manual registration often times becomes a black hole for people. You send off a request to get registered and if the one person, who in their spare time monitors it happens to be on vacation for three weeks it just disappears. If we do this, we need to come up with a way that a group of people can add to the registered users. Perhaps even allowing all registered e.V. members to do it? --Mark > Thanks > -Khem > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >