[MLB-WIRELESS] TIB pigtail offer by Mitch Kelly

[Fenn Bailey]

> Totally agree. At least you know that the person sent the item.
> 
> I heard some talk about the committe vetting perople who put 
> items on the
> TIB.
> Does this happen or are we expected to just trust everyone (or not)?
> 

Trust no one! No, really - for those of you who may be new to the list
(welcome) or just plain forgetful - I wrote TIB quite some time ago when
we were in dire need of some sort of system to track bulk buys. A few
had gone through successfully, but far more had failed and it was
getting frustrating for everyone (and I wanted my cards dammit ;).

Anyway, just in case anyone is wondering, I have not by any means lost
inspiration with TIB, my life has just got insanely busy and I
(currently) have little time to really work on extra workicular
activities (hence me not being at MW meetings as well).

I did some work on it last weekend and I have a desired feature list as
long as my antenna tower should be, but there are some key features that
are definately going in first, namely:

 - Moderation - Offers are approved by a panel (probably the MW staff)
before going live. This would involve (from my understanding):
Verification of who the person is (before you give them your money), I
believe they may have to be a MW member, checking that the offer is in
the interests of the group and making sure that it is indeed cheaper
than retail (we don't want people ripping others off, unintentionally or
otherwise).

 - Purchase/payment number tracking - Every purchase will be given a
unique ID that can be used for postage, payment/etc.

 - Contact details visible to other registered users. This will mean
that part of making an offer means that certain minimum public contact
details will be visible - I think this is only fair if people are giving
money to a nameless face. Spam should not be an issue as you will need
to be registered and logged into TIB to see these things.

I hope to get (hopefully all of) these changes out sooooon (but I know
I've said that before).

In the meantime (on an aside), I've been having great fun getting all my
wireless bits and pieces up and running and wrestling with linux/etc and
the ricoh cards, non PCI2.2 BIOSes, range testing and a whole heap of
other fun.

I'll try and get a no-compiling-necessary-ricoh-enterasys-debian-howto
up on the Wiki some time soon as well.

Thanks all for your suggestions and help with TIB as well,

Cheers,

	Fenn.


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