Do something like mac addresses? so you can identify a computer rather than the person? make them log into a wan or something even? Liz 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. Edward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McDonald" To: "Eon" ; "Stephen Judd" Cc: Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god" IANAL (uses new catch phrase) Why not supply ALL the customers details (or as much as known) in a (forced to lower case) MD5SUM. Generaly they would not use the same username. If the telcos suplying DSL/other would take advice from the ISPs that the particular user was troublesome or breached a commonly agreed to T&C they would get their delivery method (what ever it may be) terminated. Having for instance your DSL line choped of, even for a month or two, would have a huge impact. IMHO, Rob On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:38, Eon wrote:

Why not MD5SUM the name of the user? Provide that to a list and any users with the same MD5 are not given service? Protects the privacy of people and sticks it to those that Spam. I may not be the best of internet users but even I agreee that spamers need to be stopped.

Eon.

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