[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Lars Aronsson]

Rowan Collins wrote:

> "completely trusted account"? This is exactly the kind of flawed
> reasoning that gets trotted out time and time again on this subject,

On a slightly different topic, I'd be interested in knowing if 
anybody has found a useful and scalable method to ban a person, 
i.e. not only banning a user account, but also being able to 
refuse the same person to sign up with a different account.  This 
could be desireable for banning repeat vandals and removing 
sockpuppets from voting.

If I could assume, for example, that IBM and the University of 
Maryland had very strict e-mail address policies, using e-mail 
verification and only allowing ibm.com and umd.edu addresses would 
seem to be a working solution.  But this fails because the same 
person can be affiliated with both organizations, and as the 
number of included domains increase such crossaffiliation becomes 
more and more likely.


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