| Grex > Coop13 > #304: Access to Email on Grex |
| response 145 of 149: | 
Apr 2 18:25 UTC 2006 |
The trouble with that, unfortunately, is that it a) requires someone to sort through it and b) isn't really authentication, just a hoop to jump through, like the typing-in-the-word thing. The three advantages to Paypal are that they do authentication for us, one person couldn't use more than one (Paypal) account (so we'd know if one person were setting up a thousand accounts with email), and it would be relatively easy (I suppose) to automate. This is not to say that Paypal ought to be our only method.
| response 146 of 149: |
Apr 2 19:53 UTC 2006 |
I'm not sure it follows that the phishers (who seemed to have been the biggest mail problem-users before we shut things down for new users) won't have access to multiple identities to register with.. However it's probably sufficient to make registration for mail cumbersome enough and difficult to automate to discourage the majority of the problem users.
| response 147 of 149: |
Apr 2 20:49 UTC 2006 |
(My references to automation were on the system staff end -- part of objections to previous suggestions was that the staff are volunteers and can't afford to devote large amounts of time to Grex.)
| response 148 of 149: |
Apr 3 08:21 UTC 2006 |
I dont understand. I have 3 paypal accounts.
| response 149 of 149: |
May 17 02:16 UTC 2006 |
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