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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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/