Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 08:05:37 03/18/01
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On March 18, 2001 at 10:33:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. How do you block all free email accounts besides keeping a list? Is there any way that can automatically do this? I think most free email servers send on a specific port, and this is sometimes blocked to stop spam but other than that.. Aaron
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