Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 04/15/11 09:43 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: >> >> On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:21 PM, David Kirkby wrote: >> >>> On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun  wrote: I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-16 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/15/11 09:43 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:21 PM, David Kirkby wrote: On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun wrote: I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email accounts. For example: * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... * a sourc

Re: Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-16 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Friday 15 April 2011, Justin C. Walker wrote: > +1. I think posting to sage-devel/support would have to be a pre-requisite > (why get a trac account otherwise?), RobertB's example notwithstanding. > In the latter case, there may be an alternate approach, but for requests > out of the blue, I c

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > What checks do you suggest the trac account managers do? That is quite a > critical point, as otherwise it would be very easy to spam if no checks were > made. It would be even easier to spam using some automated registration

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:48 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43:21 PM UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote: > You can't rely on mail with this in the header: >From: j...@wolfram.com > You have to check the detailed headers to be (somewhat) sure that the 'From' > address is valid.

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Volker Braun
On Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43:21 PM UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > You can't rely on mail with this in the header: >From: j...@wolfram.com > You have to check the detailed headers to be (somewhat) sure that the > 'From' address is valid. Most spammers either cobble together 'From' (as >

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:21 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun wrote: >> I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email >> accounts. For example: >> * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... >> * a sourceforge-address associated to an active

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread David Kirkby
On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun wrote: > I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email > accounts. For example: >  * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... >  * a sourceforge-address associated to an active project >  * an address that has been used to post to goo

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Volker Braun
I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email accounts. For example: * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... * a sourceforge-address associated to an active project * an address that has been used to post to google groups before (use search) People that want to

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread David Roe
> > > It would seem wise to me that the email is initially at least the same one > as they have used to post to sage-devel or sage-support. If they have never > posted there, I don't feel they need a trac account. > I disagree. I've had examples of colleagues who use sage (but never posted) and h

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/15/11 11:39 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, Following a recent discussion on sage-devel [1], I've created a new Google Group called "sage-trac-account" at Hi Henrietta, Welcome to the Sage community. Before your trac account could be setup, the account managers need the following inf