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Wow....non-sequitir much?
The reason that Yahoo was banned was because it was a problem. Thats how things work - if a free service comes above the radar for problems, it is banned. There are 487534979er different free webmail sites out there. The admins would go crazy trying to pre-emptively hunt them all down. The best approach is to ban these once they become a problem - many other large forums do this as well to cut down on all the free ipods, scammers, and goatse spammers.
The reason that Yahoo was banned was because it was a problem. Thats how things work - if a free service comes above the radar for problems, it is banned. There are 487534979er different free webmail sites out there. The admins would go crazy trying to pre-emptively hunt them all down. The best approach is to ban these once they become a problem - many other large forums do this as well to cut down on all the free ipods, scammers, and goatse spammers.
CommanderFrank
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All quite true. Gmail is also banned, but not until we had a large spam attack from several people who had made multiple accounts just for that purpose. Only when they become a problem are they put in the filter. Sorry for the inconvience, but that is the way things are.
Rombus said:
well I kinda do. I create disposable email addresses (that end in @yahoo) for my main, @sbcglobal.net account. The reason I do this is because of filters so I can file the proper emails into the corresponding folders.
Whatever....I don't see why you can't just ban the spamming assholes, of course, almost everyone knowadays has dynamic ips..so w/e
CommanderFrank
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With 40,000 members and 800-1000 users online at any given time, it's much easier to head them off at the pass by filtering out the most abused web based email accounts. The number of spammers and trouble makers who are removed daily without fanfare is quite high, so we still have to do it the old fashioned way, but just in less quantity than if we allowed multiple registrations from free email clients.
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