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Subject: Re: Proposal: Block hotmail accounts (and alike)

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:47:25 03/18/01

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On March 18, 2001 at 09:43:34, Lonnie Cook wrote:

>On March 18, 2001 at 07:03:33, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>I hope some of the about to be moderators will pick this up.
>>
>>The whole point of CCC was to get rid of anonymous posters. Accepting anonymous
>>emailaccounts brings them back again.
>>
>>Questions is wether we are loosing too much non-hostile anynomous posters or
>>maybe even some we like to have around?
>
>no, I don't think so. If someone is relativiely sane, normal they don't mind
>giving out their legitimate email addy and this concept as opposed to r.g.c.c.
>is much,much better.

I consider myself relatively sane and I don't like to give out my legitimate
email [a university email account which I will lose access to soon] . My own
home ISP server that provides Cable internet access doesn't provide a email
account, believe it or not. I'm not sure if this is unqiue.


>At least we don;t see threads where someone's character is
>attacked endlessly for weeks on end or the thread spins off into rasicm or your
>mother was a Nazi-bowler

Are you sure blocking hotmail accounts would prevent this?

Aaron



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