Shall I remove the need for email activation of accounts?

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Shall I remove the need for email activation of accounts?

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jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:36 pm Post subject: Shall I remove the need for email activation of accounts?
We seem to have a few users having problems, I just dealt with "Donny" who had an inactive account. These days spammers can happily get through email activation anyway. So I am not sure I see the point. jema

tahir

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:38 pm Post subject:
I reckon it's safe to do that, we're always here anyway to deal with "dodgy" users

sean
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:38 pm Post subject:
Well, it isn't stopping dodgy joiners is it, so I can't see that it's serving any purpose really.

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:42 pm Post subject:
Okay done. Has anyone a spare email address with which to register a test user? whom we can then delete. I do this as a rule, to check that new people can get on after I make a change, but I never seem to have a problem anyway. jema

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:47 pm Post subject:
Donny raises the point that activation emails may get "junked" and I bet this does happen a lot. jema

Guest

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:56 pm Post subject:
Yes, it seems to work fine. Off to delete myself now. Was nice knowing you.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 1:58 pm Post subject:
I've just been speaking to Humph and he didn't need to activate his account either, shall I ask him for an article?

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 2:00 pm Post subject:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, it seems to work fine.

Off to delete myself now.

Was nice knowing you.

That was me. (I was electric monk). Interesting that it turns back to guest when the user is deleted, that's quite handy in a way and a little confusing in others.

sean
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 2:02 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I've just been speaking to Humph and he didn't need to activate his account either, shall I ask him for an article?

Why not? Who is he BTW?

tahir

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 2:04 pm Post subject:
Have you seen the Mornington Crescent thread?

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 4:24 pm Post subject:
A good opportunity to learn the use of the "IP" icon jema

tahir

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 4:25 pm Post subject:

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 5:13 pm Post subject:
I am very, very concerned about your collective sanity. Perhaps it'll make more sense once I've had a drink or two. See you in a couple of hours.

sean
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 04 9:08 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

A good opportunity to learn the use of the "IP" icon

jema

Did it, learnt my lesson.

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