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

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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