[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1676, Issue 2

[Julian Robbins]

all sounds sensible to me. I haven't looked at the membership setup at all
on this site. yes we do want to allow normal non members make comments, but
obviously also not to allow site membership unless authorised. If we want
to change this around some other way at a later date, we can of course ...

Julian


On 27 January 2014 10:18, Kevin Dontenville <kevin at opensure.net> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have turned off auto membership on the site, we are getting an increaing
> amount of nonsense subscribers. I recommend we add users on request. Since
> we would rarely see the to date 37 users subscribed at a meeting I think we
> are attracting spammers.
>
> Using a contact form to allow someone to request an account is probably a
> better idea. People can comment (with text approval) without being a
> subscriber. We can add a subscriber@ address and use that as the contact
> forward address with admins as members so they can check and setup users
> promptly. I have seen sites with low traffic end up with 1000s of accounts
> all hoping to get access to comments for spamming.
>
> By all means do as you want with this, but with past experience I thought
> I would change it unilaterally and then let you decide what you prefer from
> a position of not being swamped!
>
> K
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