Author: Don Dailey
Date: 15:49:20 09/27/98
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On September 27, 1998 at 16:38:32, John Coffey wrote: >Netscape and Deja News also provide free email. Juno mail is usually for >people who don't have web access. If someone does have web access, then I would >presume that people using it are doing so because their ISP does not provide >email. > >My case is a little different than most. >I use the email address provided by my ISP for only as support for my web pages >(I use it for an automated voting system, vote@xmission.com) So I had to go >elsewhere for my personal email, and that was hotmail. I also have email >provided free to me by Netscape and Deja News that i don't really use. So if I >needed an email address to sign up here, I would either have to use an account >that I don't normally use for personal mail (vote@xmission.com), but fortunately >I also have work email (jcoffey@acclaim.net) > >Sounds like a good proposal to me. The alternative is to police the postings >a little more strictly .... i.e. throw the trouble makers out. > >john coffey My only complaint is having the ability to communicate with our members. I have no problem with who the provider is but I don't like anonymous accounts. I believe in the principle of being able to confront someone directly and one way communication is cowardice. Since it is impossible to enforce this we probably won't try. But what we might possibly do is make it a policy that if we need to communicate with you in private and cannont then we may temporarily suspend your password until it is supplied to us. This is not a punishment of any kind and your account would simply be put on hold, no questions asked. But since we are not out to embarass anyone, if we have email of a private nature we must be able to communicate privately. Also I forgot to mention that we would make an effort to contact you first, probably via a post or general lookup before the temporary suspend. This is NOT policy right now however and so far is just my own opinion. We have only touched on this issue between ourselves. Comments will be considered. - Don
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