At 8:38 PM -0800 2/4/97, Brad Knowles wrote:
>The fact that AOL has a credit card number for
>you (that EquiFax, TRW, and those other credit-clearinghouses
>consider valid) doesn't mean much to those people you harass.
Yeah. There's the rub. Is there some way users in their first period of
using a screen name can be considered probationary with a reduction in
accessible services? Allow them to only send certain numbers of email a
day, say? I don't think it's unreasonable that when an account is
created or a screen name added that it be handled more carefully until
it's shown not to be a spammer or a space case. It could even be
marketed in terms of "hand holding while you get your feet on the
ground" and made to look like a positive to the new users... (grin)
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