Re: CVS Account Request

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > root@php2.chek.com wrote: > > Full name: Mustafa Gullu > > Email: dermanyeri@hotmail.com > > ID: gullu > > Purpose: Web design > > I think we should need some really newbie-proof text on php.net > regarding who needs a CVS account, and who doesn't. -- I'm not sure how much more newbie-proof the text could be. It's fairly blunt, and quite explicit about why a person doesn't need a CVS account. If I had to guess, I'd say people applying for accounts are simply scrolling past the text until they can find a form to fill in. A regex filter was suggested to auto-block requests that use certain words (study, reading, authoring, using...) and that would probably help at least somewhat. If such words were triggered, the error message could duplicate the list of reasons you don't need an account, and ask "Now, are you -sure- you need this account?". Or maybe a list of past denied appliations could be posted, to give real-world examples of accounts that weren't necessary. I wonder if requiring the purpose to be more specific would help.. Matt