Swiki pollution...

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 28 15:05:22 UTC 2002


We really do want to implement something like that -- a "callback" 
mechanism to authenticate uploads.  But that one actually requires 
programming...:-)

Mark

On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 05:38  AM, 
G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:

> In the PHP community they use the mechanism of sending a UN/PW to your
> email-adress. (This does not stop people using fake-email-adresses from
> providers like hotmail.com, but at least they can ban mis-users. 
> Another
> nice thing about this mechanism is that you can build a who-is-who on 
> top of
> it... Must be fun for some of us to build in Squeak a yellow-pages for 
> all
> the swiki servers that exchange/synchronize Squeak-user-profiles..)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Guzdial [mailto:guzdial at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: dinsdag 27 augustus 2002 16:50
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Swiki pollution...
>
>
> We at Georgia Tech are reading the messages and considering what
> actions to take.  We don't have a lot of resources to implement
> protection mechanisms, so we'll be trying simpler mechanisms first.
> Swikis are really booming at Tech (e.g., the Chemical Engineers just
> set up their own server and are now using Swiki for every one of their
> classes), and there are really very few of us around to address
> questions and keep everything running.  So the "Swiki pollution"
> problem isn't getting a lot of cycles.  But we are thinking and talking
> about it, and actively looking for solutions.
>
> Mark
>
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 07:26  AM, Martin Drautzburg wrote:
>
>> It just occured to me, that I don't know who will implement whatever
>> protection mechanism we might come up with (except that it is not
>> me). Is this clear to anyone else ? I mean we are not passing around
>> ideas and wonder why nothing really happens, are we ?
>>
>>
>>
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> Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
> Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & Technologies
> Collaborative Software Lab, http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/
>
>
>
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Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & Technologies
Collaborative Software Lab, http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/




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