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

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 23:54:16 04/01/04

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if you believe for stinking minute that the cheapskates who want to pirate
warezs here would ever shell out fifty bucks just twist our dicks in a pretzel,
then you need an attitude adjustment pal.
and what of all those college kid chess programmer wanna-bees? do you expect
them to ante-up a painful amount of coin too? or will this board die a slow
death like szome chessclubs do under such two-tiered systems?

On April 02, 2004 at 02:20:16, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>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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