On 05/12/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
> On 05/12/05, Mischa Peters
<mischa2023(a)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(a)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]