Re: WikiWebLogs and PartialLocks (was Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New jeffshackssnapshot. )

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Steve Wainstead wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
>
> > To avoid becoming an instrument of spammage, we probably don't want to
> > allow just anyone to sign arbitrary users (or e-mails) up for page
> > change
> > notifications.  Or do we?
>
> no, most certainly not. The one patch we got many months ago allowed this;
> one just puts one's email address in the page, I think it was. Not good.
> Fine on an intranet though!

Well, if you allow  all users to read and edit the wiki but allow them to
create an account which will a) log their name on RecentChanges instead of
their IP, and b) allow them to get email notification. When they create
the account, they are sent an email saying "visit this URL to confirm your
email addr", and PhpWiki enables the account fully when the URL is
visited.

Cheers,
Gary

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