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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:

>> 1. Authorized user: is that someone with an account, or someone who has
>> been authorized by someone else?
>
> In my mind it is someone who without threw a process of email confirmation.
> Just to help stave off the amount of trolling that may happen.

I guess it depends on whether you feel the larger of the project's problems is
too many people trying to help who must be stopped before they do something
that may need to be corrected or too few people getting past the natural
barriers to being able to contribute.

The former would be a great problem to have but I don't see any evidence of
it.

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  Gregory Stark
  EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com