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[gotmilk]

re: IH's registration [uses] the e-mail system

Posted by: IH Admin [Matt]
... like the general concept of e-mail verification,
but it isn't working [allows] the Lebed(s) [having] thousands
of e-mail addresses [to] manipuluate the system

Matt,

My AOL membership allows me to have 6 different accounts,
each with a seperate e-mail addresses of [e-mail].

If I tried to sign up with iHub as a FREE using those extra
5 AOL usernames, could you tell that they arrived from the
same AOL account? I have AOL 9.0 now that is different than
prior AOL releases, in that something is static rather than
dynamically created new each time. But I remember you once
mentioned that you are able to tell sometimes that the same
person that you booted off iHub was trying to register as
a FREE based on those strings of characters in the e-mail.

Rather than focus on the AOL method eventhought those 6 different
accounts I can have can be deleted by me and remake into different
usernames, what are the Lebed(s) doing to be able to have
thousands of e-mail addresses?

I know web sites are available that allow a person to send
and receive e-mail so that their real address is hidden,
and I wonder if you know of them and refuse to honor any
registration via this method?

It may be different than my AOL ability to have many usernames,
but are there web sites selling a service to allow you
to have unlimited e-mail accounts that all look as having
a "home" address just the mail server? These if you knew how
to tell if used, would be an invalid registration method,
and simply reply to the request for a iHub FREE account with
a message that states certain e-mail services cannot be used
to do an iHub registration.

I'am clueless on what HotMail is. Yahoo?

The following news article might signal that a standard
to verify e-mail to stop spammers might also work for iHub
if it becomes available.

One small step against spam. One giant step for Yahoo and Microsoft
#msg-3143671
... ask them to call me back when their focus turns to creating
an anti-spam standard through which all e-mail servers
can interoperate at the message transfer agent (MTA) level...

Well, then is now. Finally.

... specifications promises to establish, with a much greater
degree of confidence than was ever available before,
that e-mails are truly from the source they claim to come from...

Doug