Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton@verizon.net wrote: [among other things, let's]
Require people to register, providing a verifiable email address
that is not yahoo or hotmail, as a precondition for contributing.
By all means!
And let's ban users from AOL, too, they're all such lamers, and from, Verizon.net, because they allow a single user to have up to four different email addresses, and people from "vanity" addresses (their own domains) because who knows how many email addresses _they_ could have, and anyone from weird little ISP's I've never heard of like Bomis, because who knows what _their_ policies might be.
And then let's get rid of the top-posters.
And the people with more-than-four-line SIGs, and the piano organists, and people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face, and the idiot who praises in enthusiastic tone every century but this and every country but his own.
And let's require a social security number, credit card number, mother's maiden name, and proof of sexual orientation as a requirement for registration.
(Is the irony obvious enough yet, or do I need to add a smiley?)