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

Author: David Wilke

Date: 09:40:15 03/18/01

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On March 18, 2001 at 10:59:08, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On March 18, 2001 at 10:36:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2001 at 09:24:05, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>>I know of dozens of free email providers at least that were not blocked.
>>>
>>>A silly policy that I'm strongly against in FICS and probably in CCC, since it
>>>doesn't work anyway, as people determined to post under duplicate accounts
>>>can easily find a way around it. You might block other casual users, you will
>>>be surprised how many internet providers don't offer regular you email. My ISP
>>>provider that provides cable access is an example.
>>>
>>>Aaron
>>
>>If you have a cable modem, you have an IP address.  You don't _need_ to have
>>your ISP offer you an email account, you can do it _yourself_.
>
>How? By setting up a mail server? Sounds too difficult for me.

Setting up a mail server is actually quite easy. Getting domains names to dns
correctly can sometimes be the tricky part.



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