It would not be dissimilar from the forum, or the wiki or any other CMS.
All those systems need to deal with user management and authentication, and
as soon as the flightgear MP starts ruling the world, we'll probably see
spambots too. Once we start attracting spammers then do we still consider
it a free world where a social solution and peer pressure is the best
option? You are right though that it could be a large project. On the
other hand, there is a lot of systems that do authentication ... maybe there
are some modules available that we could just plug in and use that wouldn't
require starting from scratch?
I'm not saying this is what we *should* do, I was merely suggesting that
it's a possible route we could take, and perhaps with some small tweaks to
the MP protocol we could easily support authenticated servers.
Would it be bad if a user had a choice between the open free for all we
currently have and a more constrained and managed system (that someone has
taken the time to build and continues to manage.)
Regards,
Curt.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Martin Spott wrote:
> Curtis Olson wrote:
>
> > Another thought. I know it would be a huge effort to setup a system with
> > user id's and passwords, self registration, [...]
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> To be honest, I'd expect those who deliberately are being rude will
> just create a new account after they've been locked out. This requires
> someone to perform continuous maintenance on the system.
> If you/we are really serious about setting up an authentication system,
> then there's probably no other suitable means expect from introducing
> some initial test/exam .... which, as well, requires a huge effort to
> set up and maintain. That would be a project on its own.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
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