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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:33:35 03/18/01

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On March 18, 2001 at 09:47:25, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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


I think the only answer is to block _all_ free email account hosts.  So long
as users can create email accounts that are anonymous in nature, this will be
a problem.  In another 5 years there will be no such thing on the internet I
predict.  They are simply a license to make trouble.



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