Re: [CAAN] Request for Hierarchical Category List

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tom Bampton wrote:
> 
> "xern" <xer...@cpan.org> wrote in message
> news:Pin...@realTao.org...
> > In fact, currently I just want to make sure that every user's email is
> > valid. So, I send letters to each newly registered user. If I get bounces,
> > I may think the registration is invalid. While it's preprealpha, I don't
> > want to do in a verbose way. If no bounces, user's account is created.
> 
> Please don't top post. A bounce can take upto or over 5 days to arrive for
> addresses that are temporarily down. If you rely solely on that, when you
> implement a "real" system for verifying mails, you should confirm all existing
> addresses in the database before sending any additional mail to them. With your
> system as it is now, anyone can enter anyone elses email address in there.
> Whilst you dont intend it, anything sent to addresses not entered by the owner
> *is* spam.
> 
> Like you say, it probably doesnt matter so much for now, but once it becomes
> alpha or beta you'll need to make some changes :) Oh, one thing I forgot to
> mention before, make sure you keep copies of all verifications and
> registrations, including IP address of those enterring info in the form. This
> way if/when someone complains you have the data there to present to them (and
> from the IP it should be fairly obvious if the complainer has a legitimate
> complaint or has just forgotten they did it).
> 
> T.
> 

  The current scheme works now. An account is created before sending 
email. Any registered user is presumed valid and it may not be an abuse. Providing
a verification link can also cause abuse too. Adding that is not difficult, but the
current one works fine now and http://cpan.org works in a similar way.

  Every user's registration and access log are saved for user's right.

  CAAN provides just an alternative way to publish ascii art, not an replacement
of other media. I trust ascii artists, and I hope CAAN is trusted too.