Author: Don Dailey
Date: 19:36:50 01/22/99
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On January 22, 1999 at 15:00:04, KarinsDad wrote: >On January 22, 1999 at 14:45:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 22, 1999 at 08:08:07, Steffen Jakob wrote: >> >>>On January 22, 1999 at 02:15:59, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>On January 21, 1999 at 15:16:37, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>[...] >>> >>>>Fake email address in what sense? You can't get a password without having a >>>>real email address, since the password is sent to the email address. >>> >>>I think Dan meant those Email accounts which you can get free from several >>>public services (e.g. gmx, bigfoot, ...). >>That is one issue. It would not be a problem if the services were not abused to >>allow hanky-panky. But they are sometimes. Another is that people can get an >>account, then delete the email account used to get access and continue to post. >>I have had emails bounce before, trying to send an email to the originator of a >>message. > >This problem is easier to resolve though. > >Once a month or so, have CCC send an Email to everyone. If an Email bounces, try >it again a day later or so and if it still bounces, disable the account. You >could even do this at random times so that people wouldn't know that it occurs >at the end of the month, to get new Email and CCC accounts at the beginning of >the month. If anyone accidentally got caught with a problem such as their ISP >was down for a few days and couldn't get back in, they could always Email CCC >that they cannot get back in and why their Email was disabled. I think the >frequency of problems of this type is low enough that the solution would be >fine. > >Some ISPs give out free accounts for 30 days or so, so you couldn't eliminate >the problem completely. You could only attempt to minimize it. > >This solution could also be used to eventually clean up the server of obsolete >accounts. > >You could also state right up front that the free Email accounts that are abused >will invalidate that service for everyone (such as if someone uses hotmail.com >to cause problems, all free hotmail.com accounts are busted). This may prevent a >few non-paying Email contributors from getting access here, but for those of us >who do pay an ISP (which is probably a high percentage), it would minimize these >types of abuse problems here (such as Sean's 91+ accounts). > >Do these solutions seem reasonable? > >KarinsDad I think your idea is quite good. I'm not sure I like the idea about disabling a whol provider however since this could prevent us from getting a good member and would prevent them from getting the benefit of our group. - Don
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