Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 23:10:57 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 14:26:22, Steven Schwartz wrote: >Starting today, we are instituting new CCC sign-up >rules. > >All NEW sign-ups are required to use their real >names. They are also required to submit their >city and state (or city and country). > >These real names will appear when a member posts. >Aliases will not be permitted. > >If a new sign up needs to remain anonymous for >whatever reason, he may either choose not to post >at all or may apply for an exemption - the information >supplied to receive an exemption shall remain confidential. > >Current members are exempt from these rules and >will only need to supply real names and the >required address info (see above) if they leave >CCC (via suspension or otherwise) and need to re-sign up. > >Suspended members may be asked to supply still further >evidence of their real name, address, phone number, etc., >in order to re-enter the CCC. > >Perhaps you have all noticed that the message board >has been relatively free of abuse, in one form or another, >for the last several days. The credit goes to the diligent >work of our moderators: Dave, Andrew. and Tom. > >In fact, yesterday CCC had its busiest day ever, generating >over 6300 hits in a 24 hour period, and this was in spite >of the fact that the sign-up board was down in order to >make the changes. That's pretty impressive. > >Steve (ICD/Your Move) I have a question, how do you block trouble makers for good by blocking their IP. This real name move will make this forum have nice sounding real names, but what is stopping someone from calling themselves say, Greg Smith and using a hotmail email and coming in and causing trouble. Yes they will eventually be banned, but does not stop them. Do you now have a way of blocking these people. I know in IRC I can ban someone with their IP and no matter what name they use they will not be able to get in. But this also them stops every other person who might be with their ISP also being banned. Most ISP change the last IP number, these days, IP numbers change each time you log on. I would be interested to know how you block trouble makers.
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