[WikiEN-l] Yes, let's ban users with Hotmail and Yahoo addresses...

[dpbsmith at verizon.net]

Sheldon Rampton <sheldon.rampton at 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?)