Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Max Laier wrote:

Actually, email would provide no ability to do the 'request-challenge' that we have currently implemented in an effort to *reduce* (although I know it won't eliminate) ppl "spamming" the system ...

You can do as all the other websites and email a "confirmation link" back to the sender that they have to click on in order to commit the data to the system.

Hrmmm, that's an idea ... k, it will involve a multie step process per server though ...

run script, which sends the IDTOKEN to server ... server sends back email wtih confirmation link, which would return the two lines in /var/db/bsdstats that you'd have to cut-n-paste to the file, and then re-run the script a second time to actually send the data ...

the only thing that needs the 'confirmation' step is getting the /var/db/bsdstats populated with valid data ... after that, the data only needs to be sent in, but confirmed, since the data in /var/db/bsdstats is the confirmation ... so subsequent months the data would just need to be 'bounced' through ...

Does that sound reasonable?

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