On 17 Feb 2002, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > > > I have people register so to prevent abuse. The potential for abuse is > > > > just too high if I let people edit pages anonymously. > > > > > > What stops me from registering throw away data and abusing if that's > > > really what turns my crank? > > > > Because I require a valid email address. > > That's a non-issue, you can get one everythere. Yeah I know but it takes effort to do one. If someone is being abusive I can simply deactivate there account. If they start using other emails it will generally follow some sort of pattern which my scripts can track and block.... This thread has already gone enough off topic so please reply via private email. > Bad luck for you. Another reason (for me) is that I don't have a leased > line and prefeare to work offline to keep telco costs down. mail lists > work much better than any web stuff ... Yeah I know that's an issue. And another one I can't do much about with out a lot of work. --- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
