interiot@68k.org wrote:
If there's really a need for opt-in, I think that the toolserver should provide a better method for authenticating users.
This seems like a perfect application for OpenId http://openid.net/. I haven't read the specs and don't know how exactly it works, but it shouldn't be hard to implement. MediaWiki already has an OpenID extension, see http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/OpenID/
-- Daniel
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