Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:32:57 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 06:29:20, Sune Fischer 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 use yahoo for two reasons. > >First of all it is nice to be able to check your mailbox no matter where in the >world you are. I've had "paid" accounts before and having to check 3-4 email >boxes a day or forward everything to one is a real mess. > >Secondly, email accounts gets spammed. When the amount of spamming starts to >annoy me I get a new account. >No filter hassle for me thanks, I got better things to do with my time! :) > >My suggestion is that passwords should _not_ be given out automaticly, instead >post without a password and after a while if you are not a trouble maker you can >be granted a password. > >So while you are a provisionary all your posts must be read and approved by a >moderator before they get posted to the board. I would never have been a moderater under those conditions. I read about 10% of the posts, and at most 1% of those by people I don't know. The last thing I want to do would be to wade though a pile of newbie stuff to decide if it is OK. >Of course this requires some work for the moderators, but it seems to work on >for other forums so it probably doesn't require as much work as one might fear. >Adding two or three more moderators to help out with this could also be >possible. Basically, the moderators should not have to do anything most of the time. IMO-YMMV.
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