From owner-freebsd-www Thu Sep 18 09:55:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA19005 for www-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18995 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA29088; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:53:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:53:47 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber Reply-To: John Fieber To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: nsj@ncsu.edu, dg@root.com, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gallery link In-Reply-To: <6374.874596673@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Well, if someone adds themselves then the usual assumption is that > they knew what they were doing. The only thing I've tried to avoid is > adding links on behalf of someone else (even when strongly urged > to do so by some 3rd party who's "really sure they wouldn't mind, > honest!") since it can lead to situations just like this one. Otherwise, > I think we can realistically do no more. Ensuring that the person who submitted the entry is a legitimate represntative of the entity involved is always a question, and verification at more than a superficial level is not always a trivial undertaking. Beyond checking that the domain names between the submitter and the entity in question matched, I never spent a lot of time checking. -john