Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
>
>> Not sure what your definition of normal is; that depends on what you mean by
>> "registered". If it means just creating an account via web form, that's
>> harldy an impediment to vandalism. We can certainly give more people the power
>> to grant write-access to wiki accounts, if that's the perceived hold up.
>
> Do we have any history of vandalism on the -hackers mailing list? There is no
> approval mechanism for people subscribing to the list. Would people be happy
> if every subscription to -hackers required someone to approve your membership?
>
> I went to do update the wiki recently, found I didn't have write access and
> gave up and went back to other things. I think any extra barriers are a bad
> thing. It ought to be open until there's a demonstrable problem rather than
> preemptively making it less useful because we anticipate problems we have no
> evidence of.
Well we should definately require a login, even if its just so that we
can trace who made what changes so that we know who has taken
responsibility over a given section.
regards,
Lukas