Re: [OE-core] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 1/9/13 3:58 PM, Tom King wrote:
> There are many of us who watch and can do this (at least 10 "administrators")

As long as requests can avoid a black hole, I don't have any other concerns with 
manual registration.

--Mark

> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com
> <mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
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