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is it time for required registration?

erik malund

there has been several posts lately by "identity thieves". Most other fora in this area require registration including e-mail address (which is not published). Is it time for required registration?

Erik

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  • 0 in reply to erik malund

    We have done a lot of thinking and research on this topic. So, I thought I'd report back and see where this leads.

    In general, visitors to the Keil forum use a single e-mail address and name. There are a few exceptions where someone may use a different form of their name (Andy vs Andrew, for example). But, in general, everyone on the forum seems fairly honest with their names and e-mail addresses.

    However, I counted about 10 e-mail addresses with multiple names. One e-mail address had nearly 50 names (this was the source of the bogus posts so many of you observed).

    So, we have options.

    1. Do nothing. Just leave the forum alone and accept that this is the way it's going to be.
    2. Manually re-name message posts when it becomes apparent (too many names for one e-mail address).
    3. Resort to a forum system with required login and password.

    What are your thoughts? Are there any other suggestions?

    Jon

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  • 0 in reply to erik malund

    We have done a lot of thinking and research on this topic. So, I thought I'd report back and see where this leads.

    In general, visitors to the Keil forum use a single e-mail address and name. There are a few exceptions where someone may use a different form of their name (Andy vs Andrew, for example). But, in general, everyone on the forum seems fairly honest with their names and e-mail addresses.

    However, I counted about 10 e-mail addresses with multiple names. One e-mail address had nearly 50 names (this was the source of the bogus posts so many of you observed).

    So, we have options.

    1. Do nothing. Just leave the forum alone and accept that this is the way it's going to be.
    2. Manually re-name message posts when it becomes apparent (too many names for one e-mail address).
    3. Resort to a forum system with required login and password.

    What are your thoughts? Are there any other suggestions?

    Jon

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  • 0 in reply to Jon Ward

    "What are your thoughts?"

    All of the other forums I participate in allow 'free' browsing, but require login to post. Having to login here wouldn't trouble me in the least.

    I am also a moderator of one toolchain vendor's forums where we had one sub-forum that did not require logins. It got hit by the spammers other riffraff until I convinced the vendor at least try limiting that sub-forum too. It's a much nicer place to go now and the vendor has not made a peep about opening it up again.

  • 0 in reply to Dan Henry

    All of the other forums I participate in allow 'free' browsing, but require login to post. Having to login here wouldn't trouble me in the least.
    all fora (forums - let's not start arguing this) I participate in feature the option of 'automatic login' (this 'cleaning lady' has no idea whether that is a forum feature or a web feature or Gatesian) and the 'effort' of once in your lifetime to enter name and password etc is, of course, way too much to bear.
    If anyone do not 'get' that "way too much to bear" is irony, they are now informed.

    One final thought: Craig has the "protected e-mail function", that is a very nice feature.

    Erik

    PS: cleaning ladies "do not do windows"