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Re: Elections and Membership in ldraw.org
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:57:15 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Just to get people thinking, since maybe we're stuck... try this strawman
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> To be an ldraw.org member, you have to supply 3 things, all of which are
> retained in a DB for validation (but not made public)
> 1. your real name
> 2. a working email address
> 3. and any one of the following
> - a LUGNET member number (which will be checked for uniqueness in the db)
> - a FBTB userid (which will be checked as above)
> - a BrickLink userid (as above)
> - a BZPower userid (as above)
> - N current members who will vouch for you that you are a real person
> (N=3 perhaps?)
> - mail in something that establishes you are a real person. Perhaps mail
> in the letter that ldraw.org mails YOU? It gets shredded on return to ldraw.org
I think the letter idea is the best one yet. I was going to post
something like this last night, but you beat me to it. :P It's
analogous to Lugnet's membership packet, but less intensive to
administer. Even a post card with a unique text string on it that the
holder enters into a form on the web site to confirm recipt would do.
Still not foolproof, but IMHO sufficient because snail mail addresses
cost $ and actually require a trip to the post office.
A seperate email verification could be used in conjunction with the
snail mail step. Use different codes and if you get them both back
correctly, then you'd be 90-something % sure their legit.
-JSM
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| (...) Sorry to respond to my own post, but it would be simple to automatically generate and check the confirmation codes. Just create a hash of the person's info along with some "salt" This is easy to do with gnupg : ) Have a program generate (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) Just to get people thinking, since maybe we're stuck... try this strawman To be an ldraw.org member, you have to supply 3 things, all of which are retained in a DB for validation (but not made public) 1. your real name 2. a working email (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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