Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 00:15:53 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 03:04:34, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On June 07, 1999 at 00:24:45, Harald Faber wrote: > >>I will make big efforts to no longer allow anonymous e-mail accounts here for a >>new period. Also for existing accounts via hotmail etc. >> >>Only exception: if someone with this account wants to stay, he has to prove his >>identity. > >I say why not go back to paid membership. That way all is fixed. > >There are people who do not get an email with their net service. So we can kick >out those people, and this will also include the people who log in at a college >or University. Or the public library. What about people who log in via their >work, not all have an email account. Or people using a freinds or family members >computer, and they do not wish their ISP email to be used by anyone else except >them. > >So I agree to, get rid of all free email accounts, and all the innocent people >who are included in this bracket and have been doomed because of abuse other >people have done in using these accounts. > >We should get ID for all. Cause it is pretty easy to go back to your ISP if you >have been booted out of here and get a new email. Lets not forget unless you are >going to track everyone this will be hard to police. Since we have many internet >providers in my country. and there are a few that are run by the >telecommunicatios companies. So if you boot out someone with a email > >harry@onetel.com.au, and you get a new member who comes in under >Paul@onetel.com.au, it might be the person so are you going to boot that person >out. If that is the case you will be also blocking 80,000 other Australians from >ever joining this group. > >And if you track IP numbers. Well there are programs you can use to change those >numbers. And you can change them on your own computer depending on the ISP >service provider you use. > >This is not the same as ICC, this is free membership. So unless you are going to >make people pay for using this forum, you cannot punish the innocent cause of >the actions by a few. Thats what we have moderators for. so if people abuse in >here then you handle it like like. > >I would think that the people who have been the trouble makers in the past and >have become new members again and again under different emails and names. I >would like to know if they all had free email accounts. I also understand that many people join and just read and never post. So do you think all those people will want to send private details about themselves over the net. What we going to use scan a drivers license, credit card number. If you do not have a scanner photocopy and send it to ICD. All this when any trouble maker can easily do all the other things I mentioned with ISP emails for their provider. I think many would not bother becoming members. I know with me, apart from a few posts, the rest does not interest me when I come on here. The Reports page rarely has anything new, and when it does it takes 1 minute to read and then we wait another 3 months for a new item. Either way, if you pay for membership this place will be dead. And if you want ID then people do not trust, they will just leave as well. And maybe the Uni studend writing the next top chess program using a Uni computer who does not have a non free email will also leave. I think it is up to Steven to decide in the end. He can either have this place flowing with ideas and people, or have this place dead as a door nail with only the hard core computer chess people posting. As with me I would be a ICC member if there was a better way to send finance details to them. All the ways they have I do not like, thus I will never join.
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