hmmm what is the URL... Steven's other stuff and interaction in the
community has been admirable always...
May I suggest Steven three things to handle the verification:
1. Profanity filter... run it on the requested name.. throw them to a
retry page if such appears...
2. Email the new user and require them to click on a link to validate
the account..
3. Establish temporary use level for these new - unvalidated by you
users... they can read, but perhaps can't write stuff :)
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: "Steven Brownlee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:59:15 -0400
Subject: Re: FusionCube
> To all concerned:
>
> The only reason I personally approve each registration is because I
> only
> want people to register who are even remotely interested in
> contributing,
> and want to avoid people exploiting the site or its members.
>
> As I emailed to Raymond, people have tried to register with cuss
> words as
> their names, 'asdf' 'asdf' as the name and username, and emails like
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not want these people to become of member of
> the
> site.
>
> I have never taken more than 6 hours, as far as I can remember, to
> take the
> time to get an Internet connection and approve new registrations.
> While I
> know that many sites offer the "wham-bam you're a member and we don't
> care"
> approach, I chose not to go that route. Last I checked, it was a free
> registration, as well.
>
> The whole point in making people register for almost all content was
> that it
> would hopefully get them to post information by making everyone a
> member of
> a community. While it turns out that was a pipe-dream, I thought it
> made
> sense at the time :)
>
> And lastly, I don't require a login "just link to my (and other)
> sites" as
> someone said. To all of the amazing people that have taken the time
> to
> submit information to the site, I find all of it educational and
> worthwhile.
> I appreciate their efforts and hope that more people can submit
> their
> knowledge as well.
>
> - Steve
>
> p.s. NY phone number? huh?
>
>
>
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