Talk:Account Requests

I can see why you are trying this method to weed out the spammers (based on the discussion about this that you were having on another page). Hopefully it might work, at least until you get a more durable solution.

The only downside that I can see, besides the extra work involved both for the Admin & the applicant, is that people might be reluctant to post their email address in the open, in a public forum. Personally, I wouldn't do it myself - because either human spammers or web-crawling bots would eventually find it. Also, they might receive a fraudulent email from someone pretending to be from this website.

A possible measure to counter-act this problem might be to advise people to set up their own temporary webmail address specifically for this purpose. You could give suggestions (eg. Gmail or something like Mytrashmail).

Alternatively, admin could set up its own email account especially for DIY Wiki account requests. You may need to create a filter for the inevitable spam you would get. This could remove all email you receive except that which is in the correct format of Real Name, Username, Email Address, or which doesn't include a specific keyword you tell the applicant to put in their subject line.

Just some suggestions ;) -Ax --Wwikidiyfaqq1 --Wwikidiyfaqq1 15:13, 18 June 2009 (BST)