I think everyone is in agreement that spammers should NOT have access to
poster's email addresses. I think some have mentioned a submit-only root
server - this would handle this - all submissions get routed to ww.xx.yy.zz.
You can replicate everything BUT the email addresses. If there is a
conflict, you get notified... (Got to assume people are nice - I know I'll
regret saying this!)
If we have a shared server model (i.e. DNS), how do we handle conflicts
without email addresses? I know that we've talked about having a "group" of
people handling it, but that seems rather unwieldly (due to time constraints
of people involved). Another alternative is to have the server
automatically "guess" which submission is right. But, also remember, what
is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular.
;-)
Later,
Justin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu
> [mailto:owner-freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu]On Behalf Of Dan
> Fandrich
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:20 PM
> To: Benjamin Pflugmann
> Cc: onn nospam at tibco.com; cdindex nospam at freeamp.org; krose nospam at theory.lcs.mit.edu;
> freecddb-developer nospam at bigred.lcs.mit.edu; cdin nospam at cdin.org
> Subject: Re: [cdin] Re: Distributed Data
>
>
> > Additionally a rule (in the license?), that emails collected with an
> > instance of the server software running somewhere may not be used for
> > any other purpose than for authenticating further subsmission to this
> > db server, would be nice, I guess.
>
> Rather than try to legislate compliance (how many spammers are going to
> abide by our terms?), simply don't collect e-mail addresses at all. If
> we want to notify someone of an improperly formatted entry, build an
> error response into the protocol and give the user notification that way.
> If we have a need for tracking entries, make it voluntary and allow the
> user to choose a handle and password via a web form (or build that
> into the protocol as well).
>
> >>> Dan
>