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?)
dpbsmith@verizon.net pens a modest proposal :
And then let's get rid of the top-posters. And the people with more-than-four-line SIGs
Actually, these two are fair enough.
Gareth Owen (wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk) [040311 00:51]:
dpbsmith@verizon.net pens a modest proposal :
And then let's get rid of the top-posters. And the people with more-than-four-line SIGs
Actually, these two are fair enough.
"When they came for the Trekkies, I said 'Hey, you guys missed a couple. See, there's one right over *there*.' When they came for the OS flamers, I said 'Guess what they run in Hell, buddy!' When they came for the spammers, I said 'Glad to see my tax money at work!' When they came for the MMFers, I said 'I thought you got those guys last time you stopped by.' When they came for the AOLers, I said 'October came late this year.' When they came for the people who post their messages in HTML, I said 'So, you guys hiring anytime soon?' When they came for the 3L1T3 Hacker D00dz, I bought them a round of beer. When they came for Heaven's Gate, I said 'Can you get the deposit back on those empty containers?'" - Jake Kesinger
- d.
As I've explained over and over again, for some reason on this mailing list (and almost exclusively on this list), Yahoo forces me to top post. I hate it -- I consider it bad form. Other things that are sent to me don't have this problem. But if I post inside or below the post I'm responding to, it creates a ">" next to the line I'm typing, making it look as if it's part of the post I'm responding to. This is the only way I have of making my posting stand out from the rest of what I'm responding to.
RickK
David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote: Gareth Owen (wiki@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk) [040311 00:51]:
pens a modest proposal :
And then let's get rid of the top-posters. And the people with more-than-four-line SIGs
Actually, these two are fair enough.
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As I've explained over and over again, for some reason on this mailing list (and almost exclusively on this list), Yahoo forces me to top post. I hate it -- I consider it bad form. Other things that are sent to me don't have this problem. But if I post inside or below the post I'm responding to, it creates a ">" next to the line I'm typing, making it look as if it's part of the post I'm responding to. This is the only way I have of making my posting stand out from the rest of what I'm responding to.
Have you looked at http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ ? It provides a POP3 interface to Yahoo mail. That means that you can use any regular email client to access your mailbox. I haven't tested it, but lots of people seem to be using it, so I presume it works. Note that you can configure any good email client to not delete messages on the server, so you can still use the webmail interface in addition to a client.
There are other scripts like fetchyahoo which just store the mail in a local mailbox file that can only be read by some clients.
Lastly, there's the option of using Yahoo's pay service ($30/year), which includes POP3 access. Seems like a reasonably good offer.
Regards,
Erik
Yes ! By all means, ban users using yahoo adresses, criminal people Let's prevent as well people to have several email adresses ! How dare they !
Anthere5AT yahoo.com (when I joined) Anthere6AT yahoo.com (a year later when the previous box was full) Anthere7AT yahoo.com (a few months later when the previous box was full) Anthere8AT yahoo.com (a few weeks later when the previous box was full) Anthere9AT yahoo.com (beginning today since the previous box is full with useless mediation discussions)
dpbsmith@verizon.net a écrit:
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?)
Yes ! By all means, ban users using yahoo adresses, criminal people Let's prevent as well people to have several email adresses ! How dare they !
I completely agree. Multiple e-mail addresses are the tool of the devil. Bwah-hah-hah!
-- Wikipedian #30 <anything>@epoptic.org <anything>@epoptic.net <addresses@several_client_sites>
test...
Will the new yahoo adress work ?
(sorry, still a bit awkard to use forums)
Anthere9atyahoo.com
Sean Barrett a écrit:
Yes ! By all means, ban users using yahoo adresses, criminal people Let's prevent as well people to have several email adresses ! How dare they !
I completely agree. Multiple e-mail addresses are the tool of the devil. Bwah-hah-hah!
-- Wikipedian #30 <anything>@epoptic.org <anything>@epoptic.net <addresses@several_client_sites>
Anthere wrote
test...
Will the new yahoo adress work ?
(sorry, still a bit awkard to use forums)
Anthere9atyahoo.com
I think the suggestion is a non-starter; and goes right against the wiki philosophy of _not making it a challenge_ just to make an edit. Realistically there is no chance of defeating trolls who can walk into an Internet cafe and edit for an hour, then walk out. And if it wasn't that, it would be some university facility where one could never trace a specific vandal. If much graffitism is just attention-seeking behaviour, one would have to say that it easily achieves the goal of attracting attention (and nothing else). But it's not spray paint, and reverting works.
The thing to solve - a troll really wants to attract the attention of some 'enforcement' and get a serious conflict. How to empower enforcers, so they can do what is necessary, but make it unrewarding from the troll's POV (an impersonal conflict, for example).
Charles
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:48, Anthere wrote:
Yes ! By all means, ban users using yahoo adresses, criminal people Let's prevent as well people to have several email adresses ! How dare they !
I think we should ban people with houyhnhnm addresses. We don't want anyone horsing around on Wikipedia.
phma
Start a poll to ban me :-)
Pierre Abbat a écrit:
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:48, Anthere wrote:
Yes ! By all means, ban users using yahoo adresses, criminal people Let's prevent as well people to have several email adresses ! How dare they !
I think we should ban people with houyhnhnm addresses. We don't want anyone horsing around on Wikipedia.
phma