Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:32:25 04/01/04
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On April 01, 2004 at 21:27:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On April 01, 2004 at 21:13:51, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 01, 2004 at 21:05:41, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>On April 01, 2004 at 18:36:51, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>> >>>>Given the various incidents of Swami, Kazinski, etc, I am proposing that we >>>>require new members to have a paid email account (in other words, no @hotmail, >>>>@yahoo, etc). >>>> >>>>Thoughts? >>> >>>This may be a workable idea. >>> >>>The one problem this idea has is differentiating between the free @hotmail and >>>@yahoo accounts and the paid ones. >>> >>>However, free accounts have limitations on the size of a message that can be >>>sent/received. Just send a large enough jpg image. If they can't receive the >>>image, then it's a free account. You'll know if it bounces back as undeliverable >>>or they can't describe the image. >> >>These speedbumps will cause as much damage as they remove. >>IMO-YMMV. > >Can you give some examples? Suppose that Deiter Burssner (or some other useful posters) uses a free account? Suppose that Steve gets 100 new signups. Suppose that you get a 10 MB bitmap in the mail. I don't think the restrictions will solve anything. But maybe I am wrong.
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