Although this conversation has by now undoubtedly accrued to human knowledge, there may be other more suitable forums where to pursue it. Ignatius _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Patrin" <papercrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 23:32 Subject: Re: Re: Emailing via mail(), secondary servers > Manuel Lemos wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On 02/18/2004 06:40 PM, Justin Patrin wrote: > > > >>>>> The main point of requiring a valid address has nothing to > >>>>> do with sending you spam, but rather to make it difficult > >>>>> for some authors to boost their top download ranking > >>>>> positions by creating many accounts and download their own > >>>>> packages. That is explained in the why page. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> And that's of course what indvidual with low moral will do when > >>> > >>> > >>> If you study a little about the human nature you will realize that > >>> tehre would be people capable of doing that and much worse. If you > >>> just think of people with great needs to satisfy their egos at the > >>> cost of getting exposure to their names it is not hard to understand. > >>> It is not wrong to desire to obtain recognition. What is wrong is to > >>> commit fraud to obtain undeserved recognition. > >> > >> > >> > >> Of course, this is what happens when you have "top" sites. Any "top" > >> site you look at has cheating in it. IMHO, you shouldn't be using the > >> "most downloaded" thing as that's real easy to fix. > > > > > > Definetely you are not very skilled in addressing the needs of > > communities of capable individuals. > > > > Why do you insist on simply saying I know nothing. Why not discuss or > explain rather than make character attacks? You still have not given me > any concrete reasons for anything you say. > > > I am not going to bother to explain why, but the existence of that top > > is one of the reasons that motivates so many developers to contribute to > > the PHP Classes site. The fact that only downloads done by authenticated > > users count for the tops is the one of the reasons why most developers > > that contribute to the site do not lift the login requirement to download. > > > > -- > paperCrane <Justin Patrin> > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
