Hi Marcel, Requiring users to be logged in in order to contact the owner of a repository significantly hinders spam emails. On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Marcel Schumann wrote:

Hi Greg,

sure, that's right. But I checked it for my own repository _without_ being logged in ... and for other repositories the option was also not available.

Ah, ok, now I see where the problem is: it seems that you have to be logged in in order to contact the owner of a repository! Ok, is this really intended? ;-)

If yes, then the problem is of course that most users who want to search for new galaxy tools will not be logged in (because they probably have no account) and thus cannot contact the owner ... and will not even know that there exists such an option.

Cheers, Marcel

On 1/12/12 5:55 PM, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

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Hello Marcel,

This option is available for all repositories. If you are looking at a repository you own, the option is not available because it makes no sense to contact yourself. However, anyone else looking at your repository has the option available to them.

Thanks!

Greg

On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Marcel Schumann wrote:

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Dear Greg,

I just noticed that for some repositories there is a 'contact owner' option, which is a very nice idea, I think ...

However, for my repositories (CADDSuite) this option is not available. Is there any way I can enable this ?

Cheers, Marcel

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