No offence, but I think you answered your own question:
On 05/12/05, Mischa Peters <mischa2023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Could someone explain to me why an email verification
of the user that
is about to edit on your wiki is restricting editing?!
On 05/12/05, Mischa Peters <mischa2023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes it would... especially since for one project I
would like to lock
it down to a specific domain. And opening a gmail account is an
additional step that a lot of people don't want to take.
So, you are restricting edits to those who can or will take that extra
step. Whether that's good or bad is open for discussion, but surely
the fact that "locking it down" is "restricting it" is as plain as
day?
Meanwhile, what do you mean be locking down "to a specific domain" -
do you mean that you're planning to use e-mail verification as a way
of authenticating that the users already hold accounts on some other
service? If so, out of curiosity, are there other possibilities (LDAP,
checks in a shared database), some of which may already have been
implemented?
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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]