Re: Some thoughts on user validation....

[Manar Hussain]

>I strongly oppose any method which requires use of the web.  It raises

I hope you'll not find any or at least very many people who disagree with
your general sentiments but there's no real need to disagree as it's not
that hard to provide both a web and email interface to things as needed.
It's rarely a case of either/or in terms of design though time pressure may
lead to one interface developing more and earlier than the other.

We do have a web only registration system on one site but that because the
system is *purely* for access to things that are only appropriate on the
web site - namely letting users post messages vai the website where we make
it look like it's from an email address the user provided (that we validated).

Manar