Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 11:19:02 03/18/01
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On March 18, 2001 at 11:05:37, Aaron Tay wrote: >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. Yes, exactly: a license to make trouble. I don't like the idea of "free" email accounts at all. I would not use such a thing. Remember "TANSTAFL"? Somebody somehow will have to pay for the "free" service. And I would all the time feel, that I have been tricked. OTOH, having seen what can be done (and actually has been done) with those throw away accounts, I do not like them at all. All together I'm pro blocking hotmail (and others like them). Not doing so is inviting trouble. The internet has become so large, that any technically possible misuse _will_ happen, so you better start now to to protect yourself. IMO. >How do you block all free email accounts besides keeping a list? >Is there any way that can automatically do this? Now we go into the technical details. Since "free"/anonymous email account do not bear any inherant sign themselves, which could be used to detect them one by one, the only chance I see is to detect them via the provider. So we would need either a positive or a negative list. An important point is the "automatical" aspect. For open mail relays there are services on the net which offer this information (via DNS) in such a way, that all others can use this information automatically. It would be nice if some similar service would help in detecting service providers which offer anonymous email. Has anyone heard of attempts into that direction? > I think most free email servers send on a >specific port, and this is sometimes blocked to stop spam but other than that.. > >Aaron Except for intranets all mail is exchanged via THE mail port (AFAIK). That way you can block out email completely, but not selectively. Heiner
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