Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:22:59 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 11:37:05, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On February 14, 2000 at 10:41:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 14, 2000 at 03:07:42, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>Dave >> >> >>I would like to see us adopt the following policy: >> >> "Immediately upon discovering that a member has an invalid email address, >> that member will be removed from the list of active members of CCC and will >> lose all reading/posting rights. The person may rejoin later, by going >> through the usual registration process, but a second occurrence will result >> in a permanent removal with no more chances to rejoin." >> >>Comments? It seems ridiculous to allow this to continue, over and over, when >>we know that many of these 'members' are just aliases to make trouble. (and >>no, I am not saying this particular member is one of those, but there are way >>too many of these "please update your email address immediately" type posts >>here, indicative of a deeper underlying problem.) >> >>Let's solve it. >> >>Before it gets even worse. > >I think that's too hard-core. People get one signon and use it at home and at >school or work, where they have different ISP's. And perhaps they eventually >drop out of school or change jobs or what have you. It seems a bit much to >confront them with a brick wall when this happens. > >It would be work for Tim, but perhaps the moderators should be able to tell >Steve/Tim that they want the email address updated for a specific member, and >Tim could set some flag on the guy's account, and from that point on it will >bring up a banner when they log on, telling them to update their email address, >and if they don't do it within X amount of time we go back to your solution. > >That keeps it out of the group, and guarantees that people see it. > >bruce That would work for me too. We need to do _something_ of course.
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