Claiming is in retrospect a misleading term. I pregenerated ID files for historical email addresses to make it easier to link old reports to new ones. The web app just sends them on request. It was quick and dirty and apparently confusing.
I'll probably take the app down shortly and update the instructions. David On Aug 18, 2010 12:39 PM, "yary" <[email protected]> wrote: >> The current system is to claim an ID, as you've seen, or to run the >> metabase-profile, which comes with Metabase-Fact. I will try and update >> the wiki so this is a little more clear today. > > Thanks. One thing I'm still not clear on is the claiming- since our email > is part of the metabase ID, what extra bit does claiming (which asks for > only an email address) do? > >>> I can see my name on http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html, might >>> be nice if clicking on my name took me to a page that would email me >>> my profile. >> >> Sorry, but that isn't practical. How many people do think would click >> those links and send untold emails off to people who don't need them? > > At this point it's an academic discussion, but, the request page could require > you to fill in the email address you sent in your reports from and check that it > matches before sending anything. > > -y
