Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:24:46 04/01/04
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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? > >anthony I think there are better ways of accomplishing your goal, if this is the route you want to go. Instead of requiring paid email accounts, why not just require every member to pay a membership fee? Everyone has to pay $1 per year, payable only by some method that can validate that you are who you say you are like check, credit card, etc. Or instead of requiring any payment, just do a snail mail ping. You register online with your correct address, you get a letter in the mail with your username and password a few days later. These probably aren't the greatest ideas either, but I think they would serve the purpose better than requiring paid email accounts. For instance, I can create up to 7 email addresses at a time on Comcast, and then I can delete them, and create 7 more, over and over. The same was true for AOL when I had it a long time ago. I'm not sure that any of these approaches are better than what we currently do though.
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