On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:
B) KNOW WHO THE HELL YOU'RE GIVING ACCOUNTS TO so that (A) works. Get a credit card or verify the phone number and other info (e.g., call them back, insist on calling them back.)
C) Use (B) to enforce (A).
Doesn't work. See above.
Back in the day, a reasonable BBS would voice-validate all new users. This meant getting a valid phone number from a new user, and actually calling them back at that number, before activating an account. We started as a BBS giving out Unix shell accounts. Our new user registration screen still says we voice-validate all new accounts, and we do. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/