Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:45:52 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 11:09:01, Shep wrote: >On June 07, 1999 at 10:48:24, Harald Faber wrote: > > >>I know we'll never get ALL. But if only a handful of persons know of such a free >>e-mail account there will be a low probability that out of this handful of >>persons one or more will join or even know of CCC. > >Agreed. But I considered it the other way around: >If some abuser desperately wants to get into CCC, he will dig out some exotic >anonymous provider at the other end of the world and probably won't get caught. >I suppose searching AltaVista for "'free email' +url:*.jp" (or any other >'exotic' top level domain) should do the trick for those... Banning hotmail would hit a lot of honest people right in the face, and would provide only a minor speed bump for those who are intent upon causing trouble. Those who are not intent upon causing trouble, but cause trouble sort of incidentally, can be handled as individual cases, and would be just as likely to use a non-anonymous account, I think. Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem like a big problem at the moment anyway. Perhaps I've seen a few bozos using hotmail, but the largest problem that I can remember involved someone who used almost everything *except* hotmail. bruce
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