16 Jun
2009
16 Jun
'09
8:58 p.m.
[sent to the list as well this time] On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:26 -0300, Maurício wrote:
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 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.
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Philippa Cowderoy