Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 03:36:01 07/24/98
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On July 23, 1998 at 20:34:10, Jeff Anderson wrote: >On July 22, 1998 at 20:29:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>I think the >>hotmail.com is bogus, and I'd suggest disallowing registration from there to >>stop this before it becomes a problem. > >For every person who abuses these free e-mail services, there are 1000 others >who use them responsibly. Disallowing registration from Hotmail, or other free >e-mail services such as Mailcity would be a mistake. > > >>How does everyone feel about not allowing such anonymous remailers to subscribe >>here to prevent this? > >Hotmail is not an anonymous remailer. > > > > >Jeff No, but it is perhaps the #1 producer of SPAM in the world, based on the number of SPAM messages I receive from them. I'm not anti-hotmail, but they obviously provide a level of anonymity that allows abuse by those that want to do so. I don't accept mail from hotmail any longer here, rejecting *everything* from that site, which has cut my daily "SPAM-load" by 75%. I probably miss a few useful emails as well, of course. But I hate to see CCC become cluttered with folks claiming to be someone they are not, as in the Rolf case...
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