[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Rowan Collins]

On 05/12/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 05/12/05, Mischa Peters <mischa2023 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I understand the open editing thing. But I don't want to have people
> > > register with bogus accounts. As long as their email address exist I
> > > don't mind what they type.

> Is there any check in mediawiki to determine whether or not the email
> address you give it is actually an email address of yours?  I think
> this is what was meant by "bogus accounts", someone who put
> "whatever at example.com" or something like that.

The reason I assumed that that wasn't what was meant was the second
sentence, which specifically mentionned this would mean "I don't mind
what they type". Associating your account with an e-mail address that
is somebody else's is obviously something we can and should discourage
(as Brion says, the feature's already there); what's up for debate is
whether there's any harm in not registering an e-mail address *at
all*, given that you can easily validate an e-mail address without
being traceable or even reachable through it.

--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]