- Yes blocking freemail accounts does sound extreme.
- But when you get something like this below in your work account every single
day
- and people keep getting switching free email accounts and do it again and
agin. After you try dealing with this problem time and time again
- After whle you tend to get very angry when people invade my prviacy'
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, David Lloyd wrote:
> Danny:
>
> > -Just get your ISP to install procmail.
>
> Good thing to do.
>
> > - Block out free email accounts like hotmail, yahoomail, start.com.au, email.com
>
> That is very draconian. I'm putting up a business plan to investors to
> start an ISP. Imagine trying to convince investors that stopping our
> customers from receiving e-mail from their mother (who has no Internet
> account of her own but goes to the local library)! That is *not* a
> viable option in my opinion. If you think that this is far fetched it's
> how my mother and I communicate via e-mail. It saves us both a lot of
> long distance calls and she goes to the library all the time anyway.
>
> I also work with a number of e-commerce sites. Putting it bluntly, we
> wouldn't be happy if we couldn't receive e-mail from people with these
> type of accounts just because 0.000[insert more 0's]1 of their users
> abused the service.
>
> > - People always use those email accounts to spam you.
>
> Rubbish. I have a number of yahoo and hotmail accounts and I don't spam
> anyone. Logically that argument is dead. Rephrased to "sometimes people
> use these accounts to spam you" makes more sense.
>
> > - Avoid giving away your real email to user forum groups like deja,
>
> OK. So what e-mail are you going to give? A false one, or a free one
> from YAHOO or HOTMAIL?
>
> > - There is a book from O'Rielly which explains how you can combat this problem.
>
> Yep. Lots of books actually and lots of FAQs etc that explain how to do
> it without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
>
> DL
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