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

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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