[volunteergrid2-l] Growth

[Jody Harris]

Yeah, the restriction to new users was added to the wiki to keep spambots
and "affiliate linkers" from polluting the wiki.
----
Ph. 575-208-4567
- Think carefully.



On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm fine with this.  In fairness to the Wiki procedures, I think that Jody
> also made the change to help control bots that were signing up. Correct me
> if I am wrong Jody.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 1/29/2012 9:32 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
>
>> I think the VG2 grid is right on the edge of being awesome, but we need
>> a few more nodes to get there.  Clearly we need to recruit more people,
>> but I'm wondering if our approach here isn't putting too many obstacles
>> in front of the people who do want to join.  Specifically, our approach
>> to controlling access to the introducer information via the wiki.
>>
>> It's not a bad idea, but the way it works, requiring an existing user to
>> add an account on behalf of a new user, tends to create a significant
>> delay, and I think it annoys people.  Further, I don't think it's
>> necessary.  We have an access-controlled mailing list here, as long as
>> we get peoples' commitment to abide by the policies before they join the
>> mailing list, I don't see any reason why we can't just post the
>> information here.
>>
>> I propose that the list admins vet new users by e-mailing them the link
>> to the wiki and getting their agreement to the policies before approving
>> their list membership, and that we feel free to post the introducer
>> FURL, etc. on this list.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> --
>> Shawn
>>
>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> volunteergrid2-l mailing list
>> volunteergrid2-l at tahoe-lafs.**org <volunteergrid2-l at tahoe-lafs.org>
>> http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/**volunteergrid2-l<http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volunteergrid2-l>
>> http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/**view/Main/WebHome<http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome>
>>
> ______________________________**_________________
> volunteergrid2-l mailing list
> volunteergrid2-l at tahoe-lafs.**org <volunteergrid2-l at tahoe-lafs.org>
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/**volunteergrid2-l<http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volunteergrid2-l>
> http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/**view/Main/WebHome<http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/volunteergrid2-l/attachments/20120129/887429dc/attachment.html>