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Subject: Re: Proposal: Paid email account required for membership

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 23:20:16 04/01/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 01:24:46, Russell Reagan 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?
>>
>>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.

I though about that too, but I think 1$ i not enough. It should hurt when you're
account gets closed down, so I would suggest to make it 10-50$ for a one time
subscription. Else the spamers can still open 50 accounts a yer for 50 bucks.

regards
Andy



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