On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Philippa Cowderoy
[sent to the list as well this time]
I'm hearing reports of people having difficulty obtaining accounts on the Haskell wiki, without which it is impossible to make edits. Currently, account creation is disabled as an anti-spam measure, and
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:26 -0300, Maurício wrote: the
idea is for people to mail the admin and request an account. (...)
Maybe OpenID could help with spam problems without the need for manual intervention:
I doubt it - I know LiveJournal has a problem with spambots gaining free accounts, and it provides OpenID. They may not be exploited for the OpenID account yet, but I imagine they will be sooner rather than later - OpenID is more useful to tie in people's existing identities.
On that topic, as a future enhancement of the haskell wiki I would love to be able to use OpenID. Jason