[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Allow users to invite friends to join a wiki by email.
Should this be a jira top level project? I don't see what existing application it would fit in. Some information about the code's current form: It allows users to invite their friends to join a wiki, it has some strict measures too handle spam situations, the email message is saved and administrators (people with edit rights on that page) can review sent emails. The email has an ID string which is contained in a link sent to the email address so that the invitee can report the email as spam (this is a function of the template.) falsely reporting messages as spam is protected because the ID string is a large random number. Users can send to one address and admins can send to as many addresses as they like. Email addresses are checked against a regular expression before sending and invalid addresses will not be sent to. If the sender is a user and can only send to one address then the address is checked against LiveValidation as well. If a message is reported as spam, then it is flagged on the list and when an admin views the list they can inspect the message and select a button to indicate that the situation has been investigated. Caleb
Hi Caleb, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Should this be a jira top level project? I don't see what existing application it would fit in.
Some information about the code's current form: It allows users to invite their friends to join a wiki, it has some strict measures too handle spam situations, the email message is saved and administrators (people with edit rights on that page) can review sent emails. The email has an ID string which is contained in a link sent to the email address so that the invitee can report the email as spam (this is a function of the template.) falsely reporting messages as spam is protected because the ID string is a large random number. Users can send to one address and admins can send to as many addresses as they like. Email addresses are checked against a regular expression before sending and invalid addresses will not be sent to. If the sender is a user and can only send to one address then the address is checked against LiveValidation as well. If a message is reported as spam, then it is flagged on the list and when an admin views the list they can inspect the message and select a button to indicate that the situation has been investigated.
Sounds good. To make sure I get things clear: - An user can invite another user without necessarily having a prior admin validation (though admin validation can be forced through configuration) - However invitees can report messages as spam (what happens then? the admin get notified that the inviter sent a spam message and takes action? does an inviter whose at least 1 message has been marked as spam gets prevented from sending further invitations pending admin clearance?) Guillaume
Caleb
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Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Caleb,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Should this be a jira top level project? I don't see what existing application it would fit in.
Some information about the code's current form: It allows users to invite their friends to join a wiki, it has some strict measures too handle spam situations, the email message is saved and administrators (people with edit rights on that page) can review sent emails. The email has an ID string which is contained in a link sent to the email address so that the invitee can report the email as spam (this is a function of the template.) falsely reporting messages as spam is protected because the ID string is a large random number. Users can send to one address and admins can send to as many addresses as they like. Email addresses are checked against a regular expression before sending and invalid addresses will not be sent to. If the sender is a user and can only send to one address then the address is checked against LiveValidation as well. If a message is reported as spam, then it is flagged on the list and when an admin views the list they can inspect the message and select a button to indicate that the situation has been investigated.
Sounds good. To make sure I get things clear:
- An user can invite another user without necessarily having a prior admin validation (though admin validation can be forced through configuration) Currently all users who have view access to the inviter are allowed to send using it. A user (admin) with edit access to the inviter may send to multiple addresses at once.
- However invitees can report messages as spam (what happens then? the admin get notified that the inviter sent a spam message and takes action? does an inviter whose at least 1 message has been marked as spam gets prevented from sending further invitations pending admin clearance?) What happens is it is highlighted on the list, there is no notification process (I'm not sure how this would be implemented) Preventing a user from sending further messages after one of their messages is flagged as spam was not something I had thought of but it should not be difficult to implement.
Caleb
Guillaume
Caleb
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Hi Caleb, On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Caleb,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Should this be a jira top level project? I don't see what existing application it would fit in.
Some information about the code's current form: It allows users to invite their friends to join a wiki, it has some strict measures too handle spam situations, the email message is saved and administrators (people with edit rights on that page) can review sent emails. The email has an ID string which is contained in a link sent to the email address so that the invitee can report the email as spam (this is a function of the template.) falsely reporting messages as spam is protected because the ID string is a large random number. Users can send to one address and admins can send to as many addresses as they like. Email addresses are checked against a regular expression before sending and invalid addresses will not be sent to. If the sender is a user and can only send to one address then the address is checked against LiveValidation as well. If a message is reported as spam, then it is flagged on the list and when an admin views the list they can inspect the message and select a button to indicate that the situation has been investigated.
Sounds good. To make sure I get things clear:
- An user can invite another user without necessarily having a prior admin validation (though admin validation can be forced through configuration) Currently all users who have view access to the inviter are allowed to send using it. A user (admin) with edit access to the inviter may send to multiple addresses at once.
Ok. Sounds good.
- However invitees can report messages as spam (what happens then? the
admin get notified that the inviter sent a spam message and takes action? does an inviter whose at least 1 message has been marked as spam gets prevented from sending further invitations pending admin clearance?) What happens is it is highlighted on the list, there is no notification process (I'm not sure how this would be implemented) Preventing a user from sending further messages after one of their messages is flagged as spam was not something I had thought of but it should not be difficult to implement.
Maybe the threshold should be a bit higher, 3-5 messages marked as spam and not only 1? Guillaume
Caleb
Guillaume
Caleb
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Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Caleb,
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Caleb,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
Should this be a jira top level project? I don't see what existing application it would fit in.
Some information about the code's current form: It allows users to invite their friends to join a wiki, it has some strict measures too handle spam situations, the email message is saved and administrators (people with edit rights on that page) can review sent emails. The email has an ID string which is contained in a link sent to the email address so that the invitee can report the email as spam (this is a function of the template.) falsely reporting messages as spam is protected because the ID string is a large random number. Users can send to one address and admins can send to as many addresses as they like. Email addresses are checked against a regular expression before sending and invalid addresses will not be sent to. If the sender is a user and can only send to one address then the address is checked against LiveValidation as well. If a message is reported as spam, then it is flagged on the list and when an admin views the list they can inspect the message and select a button to indicate that the situation has been investigated.
Sounds good. To make sure I get things clear:
- An user can invite another user without necessarily having a prior admin validation (though admin validation can be forced through configuration) Currently all users who have view access to the inviter are allowed to send using it. A user (admin) with edit access to the inviter may send to multiple addresses at once.
Ok. Sounds good.
- However invitees can report messages as spam (what happens then? the
admin get notified that the inviter sent a spam message and takes action? does an inviter whose at least 1 message has been marked as spam gets prevented from sending further invitations pending admin clearance?) What happens is it is highlighted on the list, there is no notification process (I'm not sure how this would be implemented) Preventing a user from sending further messages after one of their messages is flagged as spam was not something I had thought of but it should not be difficult to implement.
Maybe the threshold should be a bit higher, 3-5 messages marked as spam and not only 1? I can make it configurable, I'll have plenty of time to get it perfect since it looks like it's going to miss 2.3.
Caleb
Guillaume
Caleb
Guillaume
Caleb
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