-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-07, at 3:55 PM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Waiting for email (with a pseudorandom confirmation code) proves that the registration wasn't requested "in your name" by someone else. It requires no human intervention server-side and only a few minutes' wait client-side while greatly improving security. It also proves that your "email-address-of-record" with the wiki is really yours. I'm for it.
I recently watched a video demoing software that automates the entire registration by email process to various brands of online forums - including grabbing a random account from a free email provider, filling out the forum registration and captcha, receiving the confirmation email and responding to it, then posting it's 'message' to the forum.... Wish I had the link handy. I suspect the days of register by email as spam defence are numbered.
It does prove your email address of record though - I hadn't considered that.
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