Re: PEAR Account Request: lanceromance

--- Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:43:43PM -0000, Lance Wilkins wrote: > > Purpose: > > Learning > > Ahem. Can someone please create some validation procedures to reject > submissions like these? What validation would you suggest? Many ideas have been tried before for the requests for PHP accounts, and still there were getting many bogus ones. Even when you explicitely give instructions and mention when an account request will *not* be considered, still bogus requests are submitted. If you think that there is a lot of bogus input, you should subscribe to the php-notes mailings (to admin the PHP Manual notes), that'll give you an idea of how high the amount of noise can get when you are allowing people to input freely. Bottomline, I am not sure that there is a silver bullet to eliminate the noise you see (which btw is so you can see more transparently what we used to see on the PEAR group list only). > Also, as someone mentioned recently, putting the "Request" link in a > prominient location (like at the top of each page as it is now) causes > excessive inappropriate requests. It would be nice to remove that link, > please. I disagree, as the case I mentioned above, even when the PHP account request is not prominently liste on php.net the bogus requests still are produced. Working in an open community involves some noise, you might be able to ameliorate it, but it won't go away. > Both of these points become even more important now that the request > emails are going to pear-dev. Perhaps when theres is a user-contributed notes system for the PEAR manual, the notes should also come here, that will easily drown the bogus account requests :-) (yes, I *am* kidding) Cheers. ===== -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html