Re: Adding Users

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > > > Handle:  No check
> > > Cool.
> > We are going to want a duplicate check here, aren't we?  I don't think we want
> > 50 people with the same handle.
> 
> I dunno.  Everyones thoughts?  I'm not much caring either way...

handles should be unique.  Many people will only want to be known by their
handle.  
 
> > > > E-Mail - check that it has an @ and a . in that order (I guess...)
> > > time, after which they are forced to change it.  This verifys there valid
> > > email address.
> > We are going to want duplicate checks here too I think, so one person doesn't
> > create a multitude of logins, and we will want to create a ban list that this
> > checks against so we can keep out troublemakers.
> 
> You can accomplish in one fell swoop.  Bad people will get there account marked
> 'disabled' with a TTL set to NULL so it's never removed.  Then the duplicate email
> checker will see this and lock out the mail address.  No need for a "banned" list
> if we do it this way.

Sounds good.

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