Re: Gaging interest/comments for an Apple 2 Snippets Library

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Sep 11, 1:44 am, D Finnigan <dog_...@macgui.com> wrote:
> Polymorph wrote:
> > On Sep 10, 5:51 am, Martin Doherty <martindoherty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Anyone else not receiving the registration email? I notice there are a
> >>> few users in the database not registered yet.
> >> I registered about 27 hours ago and have not received the registration
> >> email yet (including the spam folder).  I used my yahoo address.
>
> > OK, well I'm baffled as to where your email went??
>
> > Anyhow, I have manually activated your account, so you should be good
> > to go.  :-)
>
> > If this continues to be a problem I may have to look at alternatives.
> > Anyone got any suggestions? I would like to keep the registration
> > process similar to what it is so that I can keep some control on who
> > has access to the add/edit features of the site.
>
> How about not implementing a registration system until abuse starts to
> become a problem? That's what I would do. And just in-case, you could
> keep backups of the existing code.

The trouble is, automated bots scour the web looking for sites just
like these - I know, I've had guestbooks on previous websites that got
flooded with spam and porn messages. I'd prefer not have to deal with
this kind of thing again.

A once of registration really isn't that painful is it?

Cheers,
Mike