On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Edward Yardley wrote:
Sure, that'd be a great method - wouldn't stop them completely though as they could always establish a new account under a false or someone elses name.
In which case they are starting to break some existing laws. I would expect most people would have something that makes this difficult already in order to keep down non-payment. I'm not sure ( IANAL ) if the md5 method is going to be the final solution, what is going to happen if somebody gets the old phone number of a spammer or the spammer uses their name and gets on the blacklist. Their needs to be ways of them getting off it etc. Baycorp have all sorts of (expensive) procedures for this. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz