On 8/9/2010 8:40 AM, kostia wrote: > What is the purpose of email activation? > > Why can't we just use username/password on the site. > > The one bad fact - is when somebody uses foreign email address. This > is not a reason to use activation. Show me more facts please. > The e-mail response serves to verify that the user who signed up does in fact have control of the email address they included in their registration details. If this step was omitted I could spam people by signing up to a web site that sent out lots of email in their names (and, more relevantly, their email addresses).
What is "a foreign email address"? regards Steve -- I'm no expert. "ex" == "has-been"; "spurt" == "drip under pressure" "expert" == "has-been drip under pressure". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
