Community Registration - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Community Registration by admin on April 19, 2006 12:30PM

When we launched Port 25 we felt that it was important to leave the comments area open – to invite participation. Our goal is to encourage thoughtful, open exchange of concerns and ideas. Many of the comments we’ve received have included requests to require registration on the site in order to raise the quality of the discussions.

We are rolling out the first version of our registration feature today – please let us know if you have issues with it or you think it needs to be changed in some way.

Thank you for the time and energy you are spending on this conversation with us. Please keep the feedback coming – both about the lab and how we can keep evolving the site to meet the needs of the community.

Sam

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kaschimer said:

Maybe I missed it. On the registration form there is a check box for Site Terms. But I don't remember seeing a link to view the site terms. I know (now) there is a link at the bottom of the page, but it might be a good idea to add a explicit link to the registration page.

Thanks

posted at 01:18PM 04/19/2006
einhverfr said:

The Terms of Use are listed at the bottom as one of those find print links. It would probably be worthwhile making it more visible, however. I read through them. Not too bad. Pretty standard for a site of this type.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting

posted at 03:18AM 04/20/2006
ramzes said:

One step completed, when we will see the video conversions?

posted at 03:32AM 04/20/2006
nektar said:

When you register you are asked to provide your e-mail address. However, the e-mail address is not verified and thus anyone can register under somebody else's e-mail address. I understand that this might not be a security issue, since the e-mail address is neither published nor used for signing in but still requiring verification is a standard practice which should have been followed on this site as well.

posted at 07:54AM 04/20/2006
einhverfr said:

I just thought I would contribute one more (slightly off-topic) thought to this thread: that this thread itself represents the open source process.

What we are seeing is a number of different opinions on what can be done to make this site better. People are discussing them and the core development team is often making them happen. Indeed when I reported a bug in the site it was fixed within a matter of hours.

So I say, that this is a great example of the way the open source community can work at its best. :-)

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting

posted at 12:59PM 04/20/2006
dfoesch said:

I have to agree, you need the Terms of Use to actually link, or pull it up, or present them. Placing a checkbox with simply: "Terms of Use", it's like. What am I checking here?

So, I left it unchecked when I logged in, and received no error message stating why it didn't pick up my registration. No message "You must accept the Terms of Use" or anything like that. Not like the form really indicated that's what was intended anyways...

posted at 04:19PM 04/21/2006
dfoesch said:

Grrr... this is the email I got from you guys:

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dfoesch,

You have created a new account at Port 25, and may login.

Your username is:

Username: dfoesch
Password: <password in cleartext>

To login, please visit:
http://port25.technet.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=

After logging in you can change your password here:
http://port25.technet.com/user/ChangePassword.aspx

Thanks,
Port 25 team
-----

WHY ARE YOU SENDING MY PASSWORD IN CLEARTEXT? Are you not aware that SMTP transfers are very likely done without encryption? And that most people don't retrieve their email with encryption?

Are you even encrypting it on your server? Or are you just collecting our passwords in cleartext?

Once you hash our passwords with MD5 or stronger, there shouldn't be any reason to keep our cleartext passwords anywhere.

posted at 04:24PM 04/21/2006